Diane Myers, David Wee

Disaster Mental Health Services

A Primer for Practitioners

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book assists clinicians and traumatologists in "making the bridge" between their clinical knowledge and skills and the unique, complex, chaotic, and highly political field of disaster. It combines information from a vast reservoir of prior research and literature with the authors' practical and pragmatic experience in providing disaster mental health services in a wide variety of disasters.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 154mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 413g
• ISBN-13: 9781583910641
• ISBN-10: 1583910646
• Artikelnr.: 21556877

Autorenporträt

Diane Myers, R.N., M.S.N., has been in private practice for over twenty years, specializing in Post-Traumatic Stress Assessment and Treatment, Crisis Intervention, Consultation and Training in Disaster Mental Health, Critical Incident Stress, and Traumatic Stress. Her teaching experience includes psychiatric nursing at Yale University, and nursing and community health at the University of Kansas School of Medicine.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Disaster Concepts and Roles. Disasters and Human Reactions. The
Role of Mental Health Professionals in Disaster. Selection, Training, and
Preparation of Disaster Mental Health Workers. Part II: Disaster Mental
Health Services, Programs, and Workers. Disaster Mental Health Programs and
Models of Actions. Stress Management and Prevention of Compassion Fatigue
for Psychotraumatologists During Disaster. Psychological Debriefing in
Large-scale Disasters. Support Groups in Disaster Mental Health Programs.
Part III: Disaster Mental Health Services in the Millennium. Case Example -
The Oklahoma City Bombing. Trauma Therapies. Implications for Disaster
Mental Health Services in the Millennium.