tailieunhanh - Terrorism and Disaster Individual and Community Mental Health Interventions

This volume broadens the scope of Trauma and Disaster: The Structure of Human Chaos to include an expanded focus on a special type of disaster, terrorism. Terrorism seeks to achieve political, ideological, or theological goals through a threat or action that creates extreme fear or believe that terrorism (and torture) produce the highest rates of psychiatric sequelae amongst all types of disasters. The Tokyo sarin attack, the 9/11 attacks on the Pentagon andWorld Trade Center, and the anthrax letters have raised the specter of unconventional weapons (chemical, biological, nuclear, radiological, and high-yield explosives: known as CBRNE) and the employment of the familiar such as airliners in novel. | dited by Robert J. Ursano Carol s. Fullerton and Ann E. Norwood Terrorism and Disaster Individual and Community Mental Health Interventions more information - 9780521826068 Cambridge This page intentionally left blank Terrorism and Disaster Individual and Community Mental Health Interventions There is widespread belief amongst clinicians that terrorism and torture produce the highest rates of psychiatric sequelae of all the types of disaster and further that the traumatic effects of terrorism are not limited to the direct victims alone they extend to families helpers communities and even regions far from the affected site. This new book follows on from Ursano et al. s earlier lille Individual and Community Responses to Trauma and Disaster to expand the focus on terrorism as a particular type of disaster. The authors and editors assembled here represent the world s experts in their respective fields and together they examine the effects of terrorism assessing lessons learned from recent atrocities such as 9 11 the Tokyo sarin attack and the Omagh bombing. Issues of prevention individual and organizational intervention the effect of leadership the effects of technological disasters and bioterrorism contamination are all examined in detail. This is essential reading for all professionals working in trauma and disaster planning. Robert J. Ursano Carol S. Fullerton and Ann E. Norwood are all based in the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress Department of Psychiatry at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda. This group of editors are internationally known and recognized for their long experience of clinical work and research in the area of posttraumatic stress disorder associated with disaster terrorism and bioterrorism. From reviews of the previous book Comprehensive scholarly gripping reading. This is a SUPERB book. This volume is the most comprehensive scholarly and well-done book covering the entire range of .