TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2012//
TI  - International disaster psychology: ethics a social justice model imbedded in a systems paradigm
JO  - Traumatology
A1  - Thoburn, John W.
A1  - Bentley, Jacob A.
A1  - Ahmad, Zeba S.
A1  - Jones, Kendra C.
SP  - 79
EP  - 85
VL  - 18
IS  - 4
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1534-7656
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1534765612444880
ID  - ref1
ER  -