Finding Opportunities in Crisis

This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2013. This is a multidisciplinary book on crises of all kinds from different parts of the world. Interesting? Not unless crises can be made to serve as opportunities for the future. Fifteen chapters present accounts of empirical research into personal and group crises where people have not just survived their losses and grief but have in most cases gone on to meaningful future growth. Tragedy from natural calamity, war, accident; crisis in the family and at work; despair from physical and spiritual displacement; helplessness from political and economic disenfranchisement – from Australia and America to Asia and Europe. These subjects receive expert multidisciplinary scrutiny with one common goal in mind. To account for the ways in which recovery and regrowth can take place. But this is not a book about the phoenix’s fable. It is empirical, evaluative, and pragmatic. It is about turning crises into opportunities.

Table of Contents:
Introduction Paulus Pimomo and Mary Ditton Part 1: Crises at Home: Re-Evaluation and Transformational Change Old House: Leaving, Grieving and the Transformational Songs of Goodbye Loyola McLean Crises and Opportunities: The Analysis of an Autobiographical Account of Bereavement and Growth Peter Bray The Social Benefits of Cancer Diagnosed and Treated during Adolescence and Young Adulthood Peter Lewis After Family Violence: Survival or Growth? Penny Ehrhardt and Gaylene Little Part 2: Crises at Work: New Pathways Glass Half Full: Transformative Narratives in the Wake of Client Suicide Jane Clark Crisis and Opportunity When the Therapist Is Seriously Ill Graeme James Experiencing Uncertainty and the Ill-Defined: Working with a Different Approach to Teaching and Learning Cheryl McConnell and Gillian Postlewaight Self-Help and the Crisis of Graduate Unemployment in China Chen Hee Tam Part 3: Crises from Without: Public and Personal Strategies Energy Crisis Management: Case Study of the University of Tokyo After the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011 Catherine Bermudez Diomampo The Risk and Crisis Management Relation between Local Authorities and Disabled People Jorgen Sparf Crisis That Creates Opportunities: The Non-Ephemeral Forgiveness Meera Chakravorty Crises and the Conversion Response in Interwar England Paul Chigwidden Part 4: Global Crises: International and Intra-National Opportunities Making Opportunities out of the Global Crisis of Migration Mary Ditton Women's Lived Experiences: Global Crisis of Migration Adhir Sharma and Mary Ditton Potentiality in Crisis: The Indo-Naga Case Paulus Pimomo

About the Author :
Paulus Pimomo, professor of English at Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Washington, USA, specializes in colonial and postcolonial studies. He was born Lotha, Naga, and spent his early childhood in Nagaland. Mary Ditton is Senior Lecturer in the School of Health at University of New England. She wrote a book in 2012, Health Rights and Health Problems of Migrants Living in the Thai-Burma Border Region. She continues her research and teaching and has just finished writing a new book, Adversity and Identity: Self Defining Stories, that will be published later in 2014.