Author:
Ferrari Michel,Munroe Melanie
Abstract
Abstract
In this chapter, the authors discuss the relation of crisis to wisdom, specifically, the idea of wisdom as an aspect of posttraumatic growth. Wisdom is a complex multidimensional capacity or competence to cope both with severe crises and with everyday nuisances. Personal posttraumatic growth interacts with wisdom through life narrative and provides a template for collective posttraumatic growth. Communal collective coping can reduce risk and create opportunities at four levels: basic services and security; community and family supports; focused, nonspecialized supports; and specialized services. These four levels frame and support both the community as a whole and the lives of every individual coping with crisis.
Publisher
Oxford University PressNew York
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