Mindfulness, Ritual And Collective Recovery In News Narrative

After The 2009 Firestorm: Implications For Posttraumatic Mental

Health Care

This paper analyses the 2009 firestorm news coverage through 82 editions of the 3 major Victorian newspapers, in the first month following the February 2009 bushfire tragedy. After reviewing 4,671 journalistic segments, the vodcast focuses on two implications for posttraumatic mental health care.

This vodcast (a conference presentation)is the first known replication study of Kitch (2003) in the area of posttraumatic mental health. Kitch (2003) discovered that post 9/11 newscoverage contained elements of funeral ritual, meaning making, and a grand narrative of resilience – in which journalists provided a nation of readers a cultural posttraumatic grieving process.

This podcast comes in three parts. Parts 2 & 3 appear under “member podcasts” - you must login as a current ASTSS member to view Parts 2 & 3. [Not a member? Click here to join]

Each video file is approximately 20mb - we recommend broadband to view the vodcasts.

Click here to view Part One of the vodcast