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Lessons in Collaboration, Four Years Post‐Katrina
Author(s) -
BAVA SALIHA,
COFFEY ELLEN PULLEYBLANK,
WEINGARTEN KAETHE,
BECKER CAROL
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
family process
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.011
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1545-5300
pISSN - 0014-7370
DOI - 10.1111/j.1545-5300.2010.01339.x
Subject(s) - hurricane katrina , action (physics) , community resilience , work (physics) , psychological resilience , public relations , resilience (materials science) , local community , action research , political science , sociology , psychology , natural disaster , geography , engineering , social psychology , pedagogy , mechanical engineering , physics , quantum mechanics , redundancy (engineering) , meteorology , law , reliability engineering , thermodynamics
Four action researchers present a case study of a project conducted by members of a national family therapy organization and members of a local family therapy institute, which describes their efforts to collaborate with local disaster recovery workers 2 years after Hurricane Katrina. The aim of the collaboration was to create a local action research team to study best practices that strengthen resilience after disaster. The authors discuss choice points and dilemmas faced in finding collaborative partners and in clarifying what constitutes an invitation to work in a community. The case study illuminates tensions and understandings between outsiders and a community still facing the long‐term effects of a disaster.