The social identity approach and human givens: A mapping exercise to inform practice to aid community resilience following mass casualty incidents

In this paper, two separate psychological approaches to health and wellbeing are mapped onto one another to explore the efficacy of both within therapeutic practice. The Social Identity Approach to Health is based on the dominant paradigm of group dynamics in social psychology. The Human Givens approach is used effectively across multidisciplinary specialisms with clear psychotherapeutic outcomes. A brief overview of both approaches is given, then a mapping exercise reveals how these approaches are complementary and how elements of both can be used to inform policy and enhance the therapeutic outcome for community resilience in groups and individual psychotherapy. The ways in which these approaches relate to trauma recovery and the emergency response following mass casualty incidents (Hobfoll et al., 2007; Drury et al., 2019) is also addressed. This paper is useful to practitioners and social psychologists as a stand-alone perspective and is also necessary to provide context to forthcoming research within this area.