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Wisdom in Wind and Water: Katrina and Other Lessons of a Social Work Educator

Tulane University School of Social Work, New Orleans, Louisiana, janep{at}tulane.edu

The worst natural disaster in U.S. history was anything but natural for the city of New Orleans and the Tulane School of Social Work. The associate dean's account of personal and collective losses and victories in the devastation of Hurricane Katrina and the broken levees in New Orleans provides social work education both confirmation of and challenges to traditional thinking about trauma, recovery, and resilience. Actual accounts of individual and organizational survival are linked to tenets of trauma responses within a framework of lessons that inform the reader on personal, practice, and teaching dimensions.

Key Words: disaster • resilience • grief • trauma

Traumatology, Vol. 14, No. 4, 75-82 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/1534765608326457


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