Basing their predictions on what happened three years after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, Canterbury health officials say that the full impact of the quakes on the health of Canterbury people is yet to be felt. Source: Fairfax News
Visiting clinical psychologist Rob Gordon, who spoke in Christchurch recently, outlined the four stages of recovery after trauma and ways to deal with this. A copy of his slideshow The Social Context of Emergency Recovery is available online.
