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Rose L. Pfefferbaum

Researcher at Community College of Philadelphia

Publications -  34
Citations -  5108

Rose L. Pfefferbaum is an academic researcher from Community College of Philadelphia. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poison control & Community resilience. The author has an hindex of 20, co-authored 34 publications receiving 4312 citations. Previous affiliations of Rose L. Pfefferbaum include National Child Traumatic Stress Network & University of Missouri.

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Community Resilience as a Metaphor, Theory, Set of Capacities, and Strategy for Disaster Readiness

TL;DR: To build collective resilience, communities must reduce risk and resource inequities, engage local people in mitigation, create organizational linkages, boost and protect social supports, and plan for not having a plan, which requires flexibility, decision-making skills, and trusted sources of information that function in the face of unknowns.
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The Communities Advancing Resilience Toolkit (CART): an intervention to build community resilience to disasters.

TL;DR: The Communities Advancing Resilience Toolkit is a publicly available theory-based and evidence-informed community intervention designed to enhance community resilience by bringing stakeholders together to address community issues in a process that includes assessment, feedback, planning, and action.
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Disaster media coverage and psychological outcomes: descriptive findings in the extant research.

TL;DR: There is good evidence establishing a relationship between disaster television viewing and various psychological outcomes, especially PTSD caseness and PTS, but studies are too few to draw definitive conclusions about the other forms of media coverage that have been examined.
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Media exposure in children one hundred miles from a terrorist bombing

TL;DR: This article assessed indirect interpersonal exposure to the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, broadcast and print media exposure in the aftermath of the explosion, emotional reactions to media coverage, and posttraumatic stress reactions in children distant from the explosion.