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Disaster Mental Health and Positive Psychology–Considering the Context of Natural and Technological Disasters: An Introduction to the Special Issue
Author(s) -
Schulenberg Stefan E.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/jclp.22409
Subject(s) - mental health , context (archaeology) , psychology , natural disaster , special section , relevance (law) , bridge (graph theory) , meaning (existential) , disaster research , positive psychology , psychological resilience , resilience (materials science) , applied psychology , natural (archaeology) , engineering ethics , social psychology , psychiatry , psychotherapist , medicine , political science , engineering , history , management , geography , physics , archaeology , engineering physics , meteorology , law , thermodynamics , economics
This article serves as an introduction to the Journal of Clinical Psychology ’s special issue on disaster mental health and positive psychology. The special issue comprises two sections. The first section presents a series of data‐driven articles and research‐informed reviews examining meaning and resilience in the context of natural and technological disasters. The second section presents key topics in the area of disaster mental health, with particular relevance for positive psychology and related frameworks. The special issue is intended to bridge the gap between these two areas of applied science, with the audience being experienced clinicians or clinicians in training.