PSYCHOSOCIAL, ECOLOGICAL, AND COMMUNITY PERSPECTIVES ON DISASTER RESPONSE

Psychological intervention has grown in little more than a decade from an occasional afterthought in disaster response systems to a thriving enterprise; with that growth, however, have come features that someti mes resemble cottage industries, social movements, or, in extreme case s, evangelical cults. The social history of this evolution is reviewed from the perspective of participant observers, and the issues and imp lications of recent research are considered in the context of integrat ed models of theory, research, and application.