About Disastershock
The Disastershock Global Volunteer Team (March - September, 2020) had members from 27 countries. The team's mission was to translate Disastershock into different languages and rapidly disseminate free copies globally to the countries most affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Professor Ning Tang, St. Joseph University, Macau, describes the formation of the teams for developing the Mandarin and Cantonese translations of the book Disastershock: How to Cope with the Emotional Stress of a Major Disaster.
Join Us
This is an international all-volunteer group of 101 persons representing 27 countries. Our mission is to help parents, educators, and caregivers of children to cope with disaster-related stress. This is done through the global distribution of Disastershock: How to Cope with the Emotional Stress of a Major Disaster. The ebook version of Disastershock is available free on this website. Currently the English version is also available at Amazon and AppleBooks. An Amazon paperback version is available at low cost (an Amazon requirement) for persons who want a hard copy (although Disastershock may be downloaded and printed for free). All proceeds are donated to global disaster relief.
If you would like to join our global volunteer team in providing translation into additional languages or assisting with distribution to different countries please contact us
Dr. Brian Gerrard gerrardb@usfca.edu,
Dr. Sue Linville Shaffer drsueshaffer@gmail.com.
We welcome everyone!
Meet the Disastershock Global Volunteer Team
Olufunke Olufunsho Adegoke - Nigeria
Bhavna Agarwal- USA/India
Nyna Amin - South Africa
Parto Aram - USA
Vince Nyabunga Arasa - Kenya
Huda Ayyash-Abdo - Lebanon/USA
C. Jaya Sankar Babu - India
Liat Ben-Uzi – Israel
Helena Berger - Czech Republic
Priti Bhattacharya - India
Sagar Bhattacharya - India
Sandra Sanabria Bohórquez - Colombia/USA
Nagaraj Boobalan - India
Antoine P. Broustra - USA
Wei-Yi Chin - Taiwan
Julia Lam Iok Chu - China
Andrea Circella - Italy
Alexandre Coimbra – USA/Brazil
Lina Cuartas - Colombia/USA
Carmen E. Dawson – Philippines
Sibnath Deb - India
Shuyu Deng - China
Karin Dremel - USA
T.R.A.Devakumar - India
Jojo Chacko Eapen - India
Susanne Ebert-Khosla - USA/Germany
Elena Dvortsova - Russia
Xinyue Fan – China
Yohko Fick - Japan
Damian Gallegos-Lemos - Ecuador/Spain
Reva Maria George - India
Brian Gerrard - Canada
Suzanne Giraudo – USA
Elaine Gouvêa - USA/Brazil
Jessica Gunawan -Indonesia
Seth Hamlin - USA
Aan Hermawan - Indonesia
Van Van Hoang– Vietnam
Ming-Kuo Hung - Taiwan
Lenka Josifkova – Czech Republic
Motoko Katayama - Japan
Tatiana Khalaf – Lebanon
Sheena Kim - USA
Joanna Wong Pui Kei - China
Sheena Kim - USA
Valerie Leong Pou Kio - China
Celma Kirkwood – USA/Brazil
Celina Korzeniowski – Argentina
Geliya Kudryavtseva - USA/Russia
Olga Kuznetsova - USA/Russia
Amy Lang - USA
Lucía Lemos - Ecuador
THE DISASTERSHOCK GLOBAL VOLUNTEER TEAM
Jia Rebecca Li - USA
Chung-Jung Lin - Taiwan
Akiko Lipton - Japan
Marizela Maciel - USA
Susie Montermoso – USA/Philippines
Elizabeth Moon – USA
Christine Nazareth - USA/Brazil
Julie Norton - USA
Sawyer Norton - USA
Yasemin Özkan – Turkey
Francesca Pagano – USA/Brazil
Kiran Pala - USA/Australia
Marie-Claude Parpaglione - Italy/France
Amy Paul - India
David Paul - India
Joseph Puthussery - USA
Barbara Piper-Roelofs - Netherlands
Eliana Ponce de Leon Reeves – USA/Bolivia
Célia Queiroz - USA/Brazil
Aluru Radhika - India
Jen Raynes - USA
Andrea Riedmayer - Germany
Karin Rohlfs - Germany/USA
Nihal Sahan USA
Marie-claude Sannazzari – France
Rama Saripalle – USA/India
Erwin Schmitt - Germany
Heike Schmitz - Germany/USA
Meryem Danışmaz Sevin – Turkey
Sue Linville Shaffer - USA
Ratnesh Sharma - USA
Jacqueline Shinefield - USA
David Shoup - USA
Alena Skrbkova- Czech Republic/Belgium
Bridget Steed - USA
Zhenrong Su – China
Leena Sujan – USA/India
Aleena Maria Sunny - India
Emilia Suviala - USA/Finland
Ning Tang – China
Shruti Tewari - USA/India
Anuja Mary Thomas - India
Lucia Pavia Ticzon – Philippines
Svetlana Tikhonova - USA/Russia
Armin Touserkanian - Iran
Raymond Vercruysse- USA
Ludmila Vasilyeva - Russia
Justin Wilson - Canada
Yuen Wu - China
Pınar Kütük Yılmaz - Turkey
Philip C. H. Yuen - China
Jiayuan Zhang – China
ORGANIZATIONS
THAT HAVE ASSISTED DISASTERSHOCK
GLOBAL OUTREACH
American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists
California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists
Caritas Macau, Macau (SAR), China
Catholic University of Eastern Africa, Nairobi, Kenya
Center for Child & Family Development, University of San Francisco
Centre for the Study of Resilience, Faculty of Education, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Department of Social Work and Administration, Hong Kong University
Department of Sociology, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria
Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies
Kara: Grief Support for Children, Teens, Adults and Families
Providence Anglican Church, Jakarta, Indonesia
Rajiv Ghandi Institute for Youth Development, Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu, India
San Francisco Government TV
SchoolSocialWork.Net
Student Wellbeing & Prevention of Violence (SWAPv) Research Centre, Flinders University
The Orchard Human Services, Inc.
Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam
Western Institute for Social Research, Berkeley, California