Disaster and After: Social Work in the Aftermath of Disaster Book

Based on the results of the only major enquiry into the Hillsborough Disaster, this book provides many lessons which can be applied to social work connected with disaster, trauma and loss. The book includes interviews with the 'victims' of the disaster, and the social workers and volunteers who attempted to care for them both in the short- and long-term. The text includes moving accounts of the impact of the disaster and the process of recovery, and explores in detail the increasingly important, yet little understood role of social workers in the aftermath of large-scale tragedies. The central purposes of the research were twofold: to investigate in depth the response of a conglomerate of social services departments to a major disaster, and to make recommendations for future disaster preparedness. This book provides the most comprehensive account of the work of social workers and other carers after disaster, and discusses in detail the potential pitfalls involved.Read More