Women's Psychological Preparedness for Disaster

Abstract

Disaster is considered as a natural, technology or human-induced event that causes physical, economic and social losses for the whole or certain segments of the society, stops or interrupts normal life and human activities, and in which the coping capacity of the affected society is insufficient. People are caught unprepared for disasters, the number and severity of which have increased in recent years, and they may experience both physiological and psychological difficulties due to the effects of disasters.It is very important to be psychologically prepared for disasters in order to be protected from the negative effects of the problems that occur as a result of disasters, and psychological preparation is valuable because it forms the basis of physical preparation. Risky groups in the society they live in are more affected by disasters, so special initiatives for these groups should be included in the response plans and one of these risky groups is women. At the same time, due to their nature and social roles, women can play important roles in disaster management by showing the right approach in the pre-disaster preparation period, during and after the disaster. In this article, it is aimed to convey the psychological preparation of women to disasters to the reader.