Contents:
Preface. Introduction. Williams, Zinner, Ellis, The Connection between Grief and Trauma: An Overview. Part I: Human-Made and Natural Disasters. Zinner, The Challenger Disaster: Group Survivorship on a National Landscape. Nurmi, The Estonia Disaster: National Interventions, Outcomes, and Personal Impacts. Watts, Wilson, The Kempsey Bus Disaster: The Effects on Australian Community Rescuers. Kalayjian, Coping with Meaning: The Community Response to the Earthquake in Armenia. Part II: Loss of Leaders/Heroes. Witztum, Malkinson, Death of a Leader: The Social Construction of Bereavement. Harnell, The Death and Rebirth of a Hero: Mickey Mantle's Legacy. Part III: Terrorist/Political Actions. Sitterle, Gurwitch, The Whole of a Community's Grief: Community Interventions in the Aftermath of the Terrorist Bombing in Oklahoma City. Bolton, The Threat to Belonging in Enniskillen: Reflections on the Remembrance Day Bombing. Lieblich, The Significance of Unforeseen Death in a Community on the Brink. Part IV: Synopsis. Zinner, Williams, Summary and Incorporation: A Reference Frame for Community Recovery and Restoration.

When a Community Weeps provides a model for effective counselor intervention in bereaved communities. Individual chapters have been written by traumatologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and family members who have witnessed the effects of traumatic events first hand. Each chapter presents a specific traumatic event and gives perspectives on how these events affected the individuals involved as well as the community as a whole.