Family and community resilience in the contexts of natural disasters and climate change
have earned a place of prominence in the research field. This article provides a descriptive …

A growing body of literature indicates that the mental distress experienced by survivors of
war is a function of both experienced trauma and stressful life events. However, the majority …

Traumatic experiences within and outside the family of origin in childhood may disrupt
couple functioning later in life. Using a sample of 3,958 couples assessed through the …

Limited research has examined coping mechanisms in response to chronic war‐related
stressors, as opposed to war‐exposure trauma. The current study sought to investigate the …

More research on the medium-and long-term effects of childhood exposure to war, including
orphanhood, is needed. We compared 50 orphans 1 who lost their father during the war in …

Current measures of adaptive functioning are typically validated using samples from
Western populations, which limit their utility in non-Western populations. The present study …

This is an autoethnographic invitation to make space for different standpoints of women
caught in war. This multi-genre project reflects on the standpoint of the author's family as a …

There has been growing interest in understanding the psychological and social-
environmental factors that facilitate adaptive functioning in populations affected by …

The issue of women's empowerment is of critical policy importance in any country aiming to
bring about greater gender equality. This is even more so in a post-conflict environment …

Widowed women affected by the Sri Lankan war conflict (1983–2009) and the 2004 tsunami
face challenges, many of them in consequence of losses incurred in mass trauma. These …