Coping after Sandy -- seven psychological tips (plus a bonus!)
While protecting people and restoring safety, power, and property, is a priority in the wake of natural disasters, emotional coping also matters. Here are seven tips that can help: 1. Accept a wide range of your psychological reactions. Given that ...www.foxnews.com
Making sense of Hurricane Sandy
(Scott McDermott) Adults may be used to these occasional bouts with Mother Nature, but to a child the unpredictability of natural disasters can bring a special sort of anxiety. They watched their ... Gelman also added on a more upbeat note, that ...www.washingtonpost.com
Should FEMA's Responsibilities Be Handed Over to the States?
The Federal Emergency Management Agency, known as FEMA, assists local and state authorities in dealing with natural disasters and other catastrophes, providing both financial and organizational support. However some conservatives have argued that ...www.usnews.com
5 ways to help kids cope in a disaster
(CNN) -- Small children can be particularly vulnerable when natural disasters strike. They may be unable to understand what turned their lives and those of their families upside down.www.cnn.com
Tips On Dealing With Disaster Stress
Stress and anxiety are a given in the aftermath of a natural disaster -- particularly for those living in shelters; those still lacking power; those attempting to return to work with no transit system; or those who must deal with insurance companies ...www.wibw.com
NDMA urges cooperation in disaster management among SAARC members
Briefing newsmen, Chairman National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) Zafar Qadir said a mechanism would be evolved to share the available information with the people to have well organized strategy to cope with natural disasters in time.www.sananews.net
Is Sandy a 'Cassandra'? How Cities Should Prepare for Future Natural Disasters
Should cities and states start making bigger changes to prepare for the consequences of natural disasters and severe weather?www.pbs.org
Helping Kids Cope With Superstorm Sandy
This "tool kit" for parents and caregivers in case of a natural disaster includes four Sesame Street videos for kids to watch (see Part 1 above).hereandnow.wbur.org
Top 10 Things We Can Learn From Hurricane Sandy
Top 10 Things We Can Learn From Hurricane Sandy It's been a rough week over in the East, and while things are slowly starting to get better, Sandy's taught us a lot about dealing with natural disasters. Here's what you should know for the next time around.lifehacker.com
How Conservatives Would Reform FEMA
Hurricane Sandy has focused attention on Mitt Romney's comment that we should shrink the Federal Emergency Management Agency and give states more responsibility for dealing with natural disasters. Is he right? Could conservative reforms actually save ...www.theatlantic.com
Romney would leave victims out in the rain
During one of the many early Republican primary debates, Romney said taking the responsibility for coping with natural disasters away from the federal government and giving it the states was "the right direction," and just letting it fall to the ...www.tennessean.com
After disaster, victims count on federal relief
Americans once fatalistically viewed natural disasters such as the Superstorm Sandy as unavoidable "acts of God," with victims largely expected to cope on their own. But through the 20th century, society steadily expanded relief efforts, so that today ...www.thereporteronline.com
5 Ways to Cope With Working From Home
Toronto-based psychologist Amanda Beaman, who specializes in anxiety disorders, says natural disasters and events that are out of our control tend to heighten uncertainty, causing us to feel anxious and can negatively affect our productivity.news.terra.com
Preparing a Business for Natural Disaster: What I Wish I'd Done
I thought my husband and I–who both run our operations from our house–were prepared. We'd stocked up on batteries, filled our tanks with gas, etc.www.forbes.com
Vulnerability to natural disasters quantified
The report ranks the risk of 173 countries based on an index that quantifies structural susceptibility, coping capacity and adaptation capacity along with exposure to natural hazards. Areas especially vulnerable include Oceania, Southeast Asia, and ...www.neurope.eu
Facing up to natural disasters
It's only natural to be paranoid about floods at this time of the year, but instead of going berserk, why not learn how to cope with whatever disaster Mother Nature happens to throw our way? "Always Prepare: Living With Changes" is the title of an ...www.bangkokpost.com
Tools available to help deal with stress after storm
First, count your blessings if you've managed to escape physical harm from the storm, said Bonnie Goldstein, a Los Angeles-based clinical psychologist and author of "I'll Know What to Do: A Kid's Guide to Surviving Natural Disasters," published by the ...www.usatoday.com
Philippines is 3rd most disaster-prone country, new study shows
The World Disaster Report 2012, released in Brussels on Oct. 11, also said that the Philippines could spare up to 20 million of its people—about a fifth of its total population—from natural disasters by improving the protection of its coral reefs, a ...globalnation.inquirer.net
PH is 3rd most disaster-prone country in the world–report
The World Disaster Report 2012, released in Brussels on Oct. 11, also said the Philippines could spare up to 20 million of its people- roughly a fifth of the total population- from natural disasters through improving the protection of coral reefs, a ...globalnation.inquirer.net
IDB $8b credit line address external shocks, disasters
... (IDB) launched two new contingent credit facilities for Latin America and the Caribbean last week, one to help countries deal beforehand with shocks caused by external financial crises and another to help nations cope with the aftermath of natural ...jamaica-gleaner.com
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