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Unit6 DQ
Discussion topics support this unit’s objective and should be completed after reading all materials. Your responses ought to include original evaluation, synthesis, or analysis of the topic, and contribute to the discussion in a meaningful way. You must respond to all discussion topics and reply to your peers' posts. Refer to the Discussion Rubric under Course Resources for additional requirements.
Topic #1 Individual Versus Community Disaster Resilience
What is the relationship between individual disaster resilience and community disaster resilience from trauma?
Respond Kindly to Student #1 (Travis Reed)
Hello Y’all
Individual resilience is crucial for community resilience in the sense that healthy, prepared, socially connected people result in a stronger community that is able to manage, withstand, and recover from a traumatic event. Generally, healthy individuals with coherence sense, self-efficacy, life events, social support, and personality collectively contribute to a community that is resistant to any crisis event (Eachus, 2014). Additionally, individual resilience contributes to establishing a built environment that has the extent of resilience constructed in their individual systems. Moreover, the element of community resilience does not lie in its structures nor where their area of establishment but rather emanates from the individual who occupies that particular community. Therefore, due to the resilience of individuals interrelating with the environment via pertinent institutions, such as community groups or local government that grants community resilience (Atallah et al., 2021). However, noting the association between individual resilience and community resilience in trauma response is sometimes difficult since the factors related to community resilience are observed indirectly.
References
Atallah, D. G., Bacigalupe, G., & Repetto, P. (2021). Centering at the margins: Critical community resilience praxis. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 61(6), 875-905.
Eachus, P. (2014). Community resilience: Is it greater than the sum of the parts of individual resilience?. Procedia economics and Finance, 18, 345-351.
No part of this posting is intended to offend anyone in this class. If my posting does offend anyone, I sincerely apologize.
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Respond Kindly to Student #2 (Keith Hamilton)
Hey class,
First let’s define what resiliency is, it is the adapting in the face of any kind of adversity, trauma, tragedy and any sources of stress, “bouncing back”. “Community Health Resilience (CHR) is the ability of a community to use its assets to strengthen public health and healthcare systems and to improve the community’s physical, behavioral, and social health to withstand, adapt to, and recover from adversity” (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, 2015).
“Individual resilience involves behaviors, thoughts, and actions that promote personal wellbeing and mental health” (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, 2015). Community resilience is built from its community members. The higher the resiliency is with each individual it directly correlates with the community resiliency level.
References
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. (2015). Community resilience. https://www.phe.gov/Preparedness/planning/abc/Pages/community-resilience.aspx
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. (2015). Individual resilience. https://www.phe.gov/Preparedness/planning/abc/Pages/individual-resilience.aspx
Topic #2 Psychological Health of a Community
How does the psychological health of a community prior to and following a disaster impact the resilience of the community?
Respond Kindly to Student #1 (John Meyers)
This is a weird question. If a community has good psychological health it would just stand to reason that the community as a whole would have better resilience in the event of a disaster. It would be weird to find that a "Healthier" community would some how be less resilient when it came to disasters.
Individually people are generally at different levels of resilience. (Ivacoviello & Charney, 2014, p. 2). Teh community as a whole has it's own levels of "resilience" based on how prepared for a disaster and how bad the disaster is. If there is support for a disaster and adiquate reliefe efforts it can reduce the affects of the disaster on the community and the people that live in it. on the other hand if nothing is adequate than it can reduce the "resilience' of the community (KC et al., 2019, p. 6). There will be an increase in things like anxiety, suicide, alcoholism, etc.
People just do not like being exposed to traumatic events and these people who are maladjusted to the trauma live and therefor affect the community in which they live. If suicide rates are up then things like single parenthood also rise which in turn increases other bad things like crime.
Kc, A, Gan, C., Dwirahmadi, F. (2019) Breaking through barriers and building disaster mental resilience: A case study in the aftermath of the 2015 Nepal Earthquakes. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16(16) 1-18.
Ivacoviello, B. M, & Charney, D. S., (2014), Psychosocial facets of resilience: Implications for preventing posttrauma psychopathology, treating trauma survivors, and enhancing community resilience. European Journal of Psychotraumatology. 5, 1-10.
Respond Kindly to Student #2 (Aston Smallwood)
Most communities only develop the ability to implement these disaster response elements after they find themselves affected by a disaster. Prior to such emergent need, these services seem relatively optional and have not, to date, been able to compete with other political priorities. As a result, they do not attract significant organizational focus and allocation of resources. Moreover, after external funding goes away, the various organizational structures used to respond often disappear. If we are to improve our ability to respond to repeated events, an effort to transform acute response systems into enduring, sustainable programs is needed. Given the heightened awareness of disaster in the face of climate change, greater levels of preparation are needed for responding to mental health requirements as well as a way to sustain the capacities developed in response to specific disasters for ongoing use in future events (Rezuk, 2020).
The all-hazard community-based resources and capabilities will enable more effective action in the face of climate-induced problems and will also spill over into the many challenges already troubling our communities (eg, family problems, work stress, drug addiction, suicide). In this sense, actions to increase climate change resilience tie in with other existing programs and services for social problems and life improvement.
Improving disaster mental health programs will not be adequate to meet upcoming challenges. Rather, these programs will need to be supplemented by novel initiatives and combined into an integrated program of community support and resilience. They will require creativity and significant contributions from many quarters (Rezuk, 2020).
Reference
Ruzek, J.I. (2020). Disaster response, mental health, and community resilience. https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/disaster-response-mental-health-and-community-resilience