Emergenza e ricostruzione dopo il terremoto: la resilienza comunitaria e gli interventi di sostegno

Emergency and reconstruction after an earthquake: community resilience and psycho-social support
Starting from the experience of the support to the Abruzzo’s population after the earthquake of April 2009, this article develops some reflections on the role of psycho-social intervention in an emergency context. The central idea is that each local community hit by the earthquake is characterised by a peculiar model of resilience, depending on previous experiences and events. The main role of psycho-social support after a calamity is to help a community to use its resources and to renew its resilience model in order to cope with different types of problems.