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.

Introduction; Chapter 1 The Connection Between Grief and Trauma, Mary Beth Williams, Ellen S. Zinner, Richard R. Ellis; Part 1 Humanmade and Natural Disasters; Chapter 2 The Challenger Disaster, Ellen S. Zinner; Chapter 3 The Estonia Disaster, Lasse Nurmi; Chapter 4 The Kempsey Bus Disaster, Rod Watts, Marise Wilson; Chapter 5 Coping Through Meaning, Anie Kalayjian; Chapter 6 The Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, Mary Beth Williams, G. Robert Baker, Tom Williams; Part 2 The Loss of Leaders and Heroes; Chapter 7 Death of a Leader, Eiiezer Witztum, Ruth Malkinson; Chapter 8 The Death and Rebirth of a Hero, Lynda Harrell; Part 3 Terrorism and Political Action; Chapter 9 The Terrorist Bombing in Oklahoma City, Karen A. Sitterle, Robin H. Gurwitch; Chapter 10 The Threat to Belonging in Enniskillen, David Bolton; Chapter 11 The Significance of Unforeseen Death in a Community on the Brink, Amia Lieblich; Synopsis; Chapter 12 Summary and Incorporation, Ellen S. Zinner, Mary Beth Williams;