Responding to Disaster: A Guide for Mental Health Professionals (Clinical Practice, 24) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0880484640 ISBN 13: 9780880484640

Publisher: Amer Psychiatric Pub Inc, 1992

Synopsis

This volume serves as a guide to organizing mental health services when disaster strikes a community. Through firsthand accounts of real-life disasters, experts in disaster response work illustrate how to evaluate disaster impact, organize a clinical response, and train mental health professionals to deal with these unique situations.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

From earthquakes to the Persian Gulf War to mass murder in a small Texas town, communities are often ill-prepared to deal with the lingering consequences of disasters.

This volume serves as a guide to organizing mental health services when disaster strikes a community. Through firsthand accounts of real-life disasters, experts in disaster response work illustrate how to evaluate disaster impact, organize a clinical response, and train mental health professionals to deal with these unique situations.

Review:

Overall, the book provides the reader with a useful insight into the nature and impact of disasters and the complex role of mental health professionals in the post-disaster response.

--Criminal Behavior and Mental Health

About this edition

• Publisher: Amer Psychiatric Pub Inc
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0880484640
• ISBN 13: 9780880484640
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Austin Linda S.