La comunità nei disastri: una prospettiva psicosociale

The author exemplifies the use of some ideas which help to understand globallyand in the long run the social and psychological dynamics of communitiesstruck by disasters. She provides an analysis of changes in groups and socialrelationships which is set out in the following stages: pre-impact, impact, postimpact,reconstruction. This stage subdivision is related to the psychosocialphenomena delineated by R. Gordon in his seminal papers. From Gordon’swork is derived also a framework for the analysis of communities struck bydisasters, which is useful for the identification of priority psychosocial interventions,and the author of this article expands on it.