About Disastershock

 The Disastershock Global Volunteer Team was formed in April, 2020 with members  from 27 countries. The team's mission is 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.

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!  

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