Skills for Psychological Recovery: An Evidence-Informed Intervention for Disaster/Mass Violence

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Watson ◽  
Melissa Brymer ◽  
Josef Ruzek ◽  
Steven Berkowitz ◽  
Eric Vernberg ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mass Violence ◽  
Psychological Recovery

Skills for Psychological Recovery

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Watson ◽  
Josef Ruzek ◽  
Eric Vernberg ◽  
Christopher Layne ◽  
Steven Berkowitz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Recovery

Psychological First Aid and Skills for Psychological Recovery

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Watson ◽  
Melissa Brymer ◽  
Josef Ruzek ◽  
Alan Steinberg ◽  
Eric Vernberg ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
First Aid ◽  
Psychological First Aid ◽  
Psychological Recovery

Measuring media exposure to acute mass violence.

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 397-404
Author(s):  
Erika D. Felix ◽  
Haley M. Meskunas ◽  
Natalia Jaramillo ◽  
Matthew Quirk
Keyword(s):  
Media Exposure ◽  
Mass Violence

Social inequality in the evolution of human societies

2019 ◽  
pp. 98-120
Author(s):  
Georgi Derluguian
Keyword(s):  
Social Inequality ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Mass Violence ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Tangible Assets ◽  
Transition To Agriculture ◽  
New Institutions ◽  
High Level ◽  
Political Economic

The author develops ideas about the origin of social inequality during the evolution of human societies and reflects on the possibilities of its overcoming. What makes human beings different from other primates is a high level of egalitarianism and altruism, which contributed to more successful adaptability of human collectives at early stages of the development of society. The transition to agriculture, coupled with substantially increasing population density, was marked by the emergence and institutionalisation of social inequality based on the inequality of tangible assets and symbolic wealth. Then, new institutions of warfare came into existence, and they were aimed at conquering and enslaving the neighbours engaged in productive labour. While exercising control over nature, people also established and strengthened their power over other people. Chiefdom as a new type of polity came into being. Elementary forms of power (political, economic and ideological) served as a basis for the formation of early states. The societies in those states were characterised by social inequality and cruelties, including slavery, mass violence and numerous victims. Nowadays, the old elementary forms of power that are inherent in personalistic chiefdom are still functioning along with modern institutions of public and private bureaucracy. This constitutes the key contradiction of our time, which is the juxtaposition of individual despotic power and public infrastructural one. However, society is evolving towards an ever more efficient combination of social initiatives with the sustainability and viability of large-scale organisations.

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