| Description |
1 online resource (435 pages) |
| Contents |
Front Cover; Contents; Foreword: Behavioral Health Response to Disasters; Acknowledgments; Editors; Contributors; Introduction; Chapter 1: Past Disaster Experiences and Behavioral Health Outcomes; Chapter 2: Disaster Behavioral Health Outreach: A Nontraditional Approach to Assisting Survivors; Chapter 3: Governmental Roles and Responsibilities in Disaster Behavioral Health Response and Recovery; Chapter 4: Nongovernmental Organizations Responding to Disasters in the United States; Chapter 5: Disaster Mental Health: A Public Health Paradigm; Chapter 6: Coping with Loss and Overcoming Trauma |
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Chapter 7: Mental Health Outcomes of Disasters and TerrorismChapter 8: Disaster Behavioral Health for Children and Adolescents: Best Practices for Preparedness, Response, and Recovery; Chapter 9: Disaster Behavioral Health and Older Adults: American and Canadian Readiness and Response; Chapter 10: Cultural Competence in Behavioral Health Disaster Response: The Challenge, the Opportunity; Chapter 11: Helping the Helpers: Ameliorating Secondary Traumatic Stress in Disaster Workers |
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Chapter 12: Understanding Climatic, Geographic, and Topographic Considerations for Assessing Disaster VulnerabilityChapter 13: Disaster Vulnerability and the School Setting: Understanding Environmental Risk and Implications for Behavioral Health Response; Chapter 14: Issues in Providing Mental and Medical Health Care in Long-Term Care Settings during Disasters; Chapter 15: Delivery of Behavioral Health Services in General Population Shelters; Chapter 16: Initial Behavioral Health Response: The Conundrums of a State Crisis Counseling Program |
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Chapter 17: Long-Term Mental Health Treatment for Adult Disaster SurvivorsChapter 18: Disaster and Substance Abuse Services; Chapter 19: Understanding Disaster Recovery Case Management and Behavioral Health: A Review of Research; Chapter 20: Disaster Behavioral Health Services: Implementation, Training, and Sustainability; Chapter 21: The Role of Social Marketing in Developing Disaster Behavioral Health Programs; Chapter 22: Planning for Disaster: A Behavioral Health Perspective; Back Cover |
| Summary |
Examining the current organizational structure of disaster behavioral health services, this book focuses on culture, race, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status, and age as factors to incorporate within treatment modalities and service delivery systems to provide efficacious and culturally competent short-term and long-term care and treatment for disaster survivors. The book not only heightens awareness of culturally competent care, but also provides valuable training on how conduct interventions to meet the psychological needs of survivors from diverse backgrounds |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Disasters -- Health aspects
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Crisis management.
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Emergency medical services.
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Disasters -- Psychological aspects.
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Disaster Medicine -- methods
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Disaster Planning -- methods
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Mental Health Services -- organization & administration
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Stress, Psychological -- prevention & control
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Emergency Medical Services
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emergency medical centers.
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Crisis management.
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Disasters -- Health aspects.
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Disasters -- Psychological aspects.
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Emergency medical services.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781439821244 |
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1439821240 |
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9781466562332 |
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1466562331 |
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