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1 online resource (lxvii, 858 pages) : illustrations |
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FOREWORD. Terrorism: the United Nations and the search for shared solutions -- INTRODUCTION. The trauma of terrorism: contextual considerations -- SECTION 1. THE ORIGINS OF TERRORISM IN MODERN SOCIETY. The origins and nature of terrorism: foundations and issues -- Terrorism as strategy of psychological warfare -- Tales from the underground -- Aum Shinrikyo: the threshold crossed -- Voice: Murdered twin Buddhas and annihilated twin towers: traumatized civilization -- Tactical and strategic terrorism -- Voice: Do they kill for their mothers? -- Voice: Palestinian voices -- Voice: Remembrance Day/Independence Day -- Voice: Terrorism poem -- SECTION 2. THE PSYCHOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF TERRORISM. Adults in the United States, Voice: Grounded on Sept. 11 -- Psychological impact of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks: summary of empirical findings in adults -- Television watching and mental health in the general population of New York City after September 11 -- Voice: Too close to ever forget -- Exploring the myths of coping with a national trauma: a longitudinal study of responses to the September 11th terrorist attacks -- Somatization and terrorism -- FINDINGS FROM AROUND THE WORLD. Short- and long-term effects of terrorist attacks in Spain -- Voice: Spain: the ETA enigma -- Northern Ireland: the psychological impact of "the troubles" -- Voice: Brave little man -- Voice: "So what is it like now that your country is run by a terrorist?" -- The long-term effects of terrorism in France -- Psychological effects of terrorist attacks in Algeria -- Voice: Nadia, a victim/survivor of a terrorist massacre of her family in Algeria -- Short- and long-term effects on the victims of terror in Sri Lanka -- Voice: Sri Lanka: the destruction of south Asia's most developed society -- Observations on the impact on Kenyans of the August 7, 1998 bombing of the United States Embassy in Nairobi -- Voice: We are asked to do anything and everything except be victims -- Terror and trauma in Bali: Australia's mental health disaster response -- Voice: Memories of Bali / Alan Atkinson -- Voice: A baptism of fire in Bali -- International findings on the impact of terrorism -- Traumatic loss, complicated grief, and terrorism -- Voice: Theo was on Pan Am 103 -- Voice: When you are alone, it is different -- The psychological burden of bioterrorism -- CHILDREN. Psychological impact of terrorism on children and families in the United States -- Voice: I don't want to go to any more funerals of eight year olds -- The immediate psychological consequences of terror attacks in children -- Post-traumatic distress in Israeli adolescents exposed to ongoing terrorism: selected findings from school-based screenings in Jerusalem and nearby settlements -- Voice: Koby's death -- In the shadow of terror: changes in world assumptions in Israeli youth -- SECTION 3. THE IMPACT OF TERRORISM ON INDIVIDUALS, GROUPS AND SOCIETY. Terrorism's toll on civil liberties -- The theater of terror: the psychology of terrorism and the mass media -- Guide: Media guidelines: from the "trauma vortex" to the "healing vortex" -- Voice: Wrong place at the wrong time -- Cultural issues in terrorism and in response to terrorism -- Some of the effects of terrorism on refugees -- Voice: The effects of terror on Ethiopian Israelis: what I have left -- SECTION 4. PSYCHOLOGICAL FIRST AID, ACUTE AND LONG-TERM TREATMENT FOLLOWING TERRORIST ATTACKS. Mental health interventions in a general hospital following terrorist attacks: the Israeli experience -- Voice: When news comes close -- Treating survivors of terrorism while adversity continues -- The treatment of children impacted by the World Trade Center attack -- Terror, trauma, and bereavement: implications for theory and therapy -- Voice: Elizabeth Neuffer: in memoriam -- Voice: In memoriam: Daniel Pearl -- SECTION 5. SCHOOL- AND COMMUNITY-BASED INTERVENTIONS IN THE FACE OF TERRORIST ATTACKS. Building resilience: a school-based intervention for children exposed to ongoing trauma and stress -- Community-based interventions in New York City after 9/11: a provider's perspective -- An ecological community-based approach for dealing with traumatic stress: a case of terror attack on a Kibbutz -- SECTION 6. A MULTICOMPONENT MODEL OF PREPARING PROVIDERS IN COMMUNITIES AFFECTED BY TERRORISM. Toward a public mental health approach for survivors of terrorism -- The primary care health system as a core resource in response to terrorism -- Identification and follow-up by primary care doctors of children with PTSD after terrorist attacks -- Religious care in coping with terrorism -- Responding to terrorism in the USA: firefighters share experiences in their own words -- Guide: Caring for public servants -- Coping with the aftermath of terror-resilience of ZAKA body handlers -- Voice: Ten years later? -- Training and mobilizing volunteers -- Volunteers in disaster reponse: the American Red Cross -- Training therapists to treat the psychological consequences of terrorism: disseminating psychotherapy research and researching psychotherapy dissemination -- Provider perspectives on disaster mental health services in Oklahoma City -- Guide: Some principles of self care -- SECTION 7. INDIVIDUAL AND COMMUNITY PREPAREDNESS: NEW METHODS OF MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE 21ST CENTURY. Terrorism: the community perspective -- Community mental health in emergencies and mass disasters: the Tel-Aviv model -- Challenges of urban mental health disaster planning -- Integrating behavioral aspects into community preparedness and response systems -- Finding the gift in the horror: toward developing a national psychosocial security policy -- The need for continuum of trauma services: who feeds the birds? -- Voice: Right after the bomb went off -- Mental health services preparing for the psychological consequences of terrorism -- Mental health response to terrorism in the United States: an adolescent field in an adolescent nation -- Guide: Building bi-national collaboration in the face of terrorism -- Voice: Assault on the United Nations: Baghdad, 19 August 2003 -- CONCLUSION. Sharing knowledge and shared care -- Epilogue |
| Summary |
A compendium of the latest information on terrorism & its impact on individuals, families, communities, & nations. Issues explored include the need for cultural sensitivity when observing the damaging impact of terrorism & subsequent development of intervention programmes |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Terrorism -- Psychological aspects
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Victims of terrorism -- Psychology
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Stress Disorders, Traumatic -- psychology
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Terrorism -- psychology
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Nervous System (incl. Brain)
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Terrorism -- Psychological aspects
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Victims of terrorism -- Psychology
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Danieli, Yael
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Brom, D
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Sills, Joe
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| LC no. |
2004023989 |
| ISBN |
9781136747052 |
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1136747052 |
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