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Scarred but Smarter: Personal and Professional Lessons Learned From Surviving a Hurricane

Frederick P. Buttell

Elizabeth Wisner Center for Research on Children & Families, School of Social Work, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, buttell{at}tulane.edu

This article reviews the author's experiences before, during, and after Hurricane Katrina and the impact of this experience on his personal and professional life. The article details the impact of the disaster on creating a transformative experience for the author and identifies the ways in which the experience was simultaneously horrendous and uplifting.

Key Words: domestic violence • Hurricane Katrina • social work

This version was published on December 1, 2008

Traumatology, Vol. 14, No. 4, 27-31 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/1534765608323735
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