Finding Comfort During Hard Times: A Guide to Healing after Disaster, Violence, and Other Community Trauma [Hardcover]

Opportunities to help are all around, and Johnson suggests ways to reach out to others who are suffering loss, illness, and loneliness. Disasters will continue, and Johnsons informative and moving book will help readers offer succor. Booklist, Starred Review
Finding Comfortis a book about easing grief and trauma after unimaginable horrors  mass shootings, catastrophic natural disasters and terrorist acts. Personal recollections of responding to tragedy, combined with a practical application, Earl Johnson offers readers the tools they need to seek support and offer it to those in need. The book walks through the life-cycle of disaster care from the first hours and days to the years that follow.
Having been a care provider in a variety of events, Johnson shares valuable wisdom from those who have worked in the worst situations.Whether youre a first responder, a care professional, a victim of a disaster, a family member, or following a disaster on television or social media, Finding Comfort gives readers guidance and support. Readers dont have to wait for tragedy. this work helps one be prepared through examples and practical suggestions. This book is a ready resource to both those in need looking for help and to those wishing to provide it.

Earl Johnson was one of the founders of the Spiritual Care function in the American Red Cross. He helped develop the organizations Psychological First Aid curriculum and Coping with Deployment. Johnson worked on Light Our Way for the National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster.

There have been both natural and man-made disasters throughout history, but fires, floods, and mass shootings seem to be daily events in the twenty-first century. On the scenes of catastrophes are men and women willing to hand out coffee and blankets, provide medical attention, put out fires, and listen to the survivors. Johnson, an openly gay hospital chaplain and one of the founders of the Spiritual Care function in the Amerl¾