@article{ref1,
title="International disaster psychology: ethics a social justice model imbedded in a systems paradigm",
journal="Traumatology",
year="2012",
author="Thoburn, John W. and Bentley, Jacob A. and Ahmad, Zeba S. and Jones, Kendra C.",
volume="18",
number="4",
pages="79-85",
abstract="The ethical provision of psychological aid following international disasters is influenced by cultural factors and questions about how to effectively promote social justice. A need for holistic, systemic postdisaster mental health approaches has been identified (Wessells, 2009). This article presents a systemic epistemology superimposed on a social justice framework as a model for conceptualizing ethical service delivery in international disaster psychology. Implications of three underlying conceptual perspectives in international mental health ethics--absolutism, relativism, and universalism--are discussed. A case example is provided that illustrates how a family systems epistemology offers a flexible, integrated way to understand the universalist approach while placing social justice concerns relevant to international disaster psychology into a nested model, where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1534-7656",
doi="10.1177/1534765612444880",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1534765612444880"
}