Crossing the river stone by stone

Developing an expanded school mental health network in post-quake Sichuan

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12914520
AutoresTimothy Sim (0000-0001-7478-474X, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, autor correspondente)
Ano2009
Volume2
Fascículo3
Páginas165-177
Data de publicação2009-10-15
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoChina Journal of Social Work (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1752-5098 • E-ISSN: 1752-5101
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17525090903211713
OpenAlexW2096029389
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas8
Referências citadas8

This paper chronicles and consolidates my personal experience and professional journey in China in the past one year after the 512 Sichuan earthquake erupted on 12 May 2008.Several summer children projects I helped to organize had evolved into an expanded school mental health network. As I critically reflect on the pertinent issues in developing professional school social work practice in Sichuan, I shall also outline the challenges and opportunities of relief work in China's context, drawing from the systems perspective. Maximizing available local resources and facilitating the natural development of support network seems to be a useful approach in disaster recovery work. Furthermore, the need for professionals, especially outsiders, to be respectful and be culturally sensitive is valuable

China · Context (archaeology · Disaster recovery · Geography · Medical emergency · Mental health · Natural disaster · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Psychiatry · Public relations · Quake (natural phenomenon · Relief Work · Sociology · Work (physics · Child Abuse and Trauma · Community Health and Development · Engineering · Medicine · Psychology · Resilience and Mental Health · Social Work