Restoration and Loss after Disaster: Applying the Dual Process Model of Coping in Bereavement

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2018
Authors
McManus R
Walter T
Claridge L
Abstract

The article asks whether disasters that destroy life but leave the material infrastructure relatively intact tend to prompt communal coping focussing on loss, while disasters that destroy significant material infrastructure tend to prompt coping through restoration / re-building. After comparing memorials to New Zealand’s Christchurch earthquake and Pike River mine disasters, we outline circumstances in which collective restorative endeavour may be grassroots, organised from above, or manipulated, along with limits to effective restoration. We conclude that bereavement literature may need to take restoration more seriously, while disaster literature may need to take loss more seriously.

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McManus R, Walter T, Claridge L (2018). Restoration and Loss after Disaster: Applying the Dual Process Model of Coping in Bereavement. Death Studies.
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communal loss, earthquake, grief, communitas, volunteers
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Field of Research::17 - Psychology and Cognitive Sciences::1701 - Psychology::170113 - Social and Community Psychology
Fields of Research::44 - Human society::4410 - Sociology::441016 - Urban sociology and community studies
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