9/11: Mental Health in the Wake of Terrorist Attacks

Cambridge University Press, 8/6/2012
EAN 9781107406421, ISBN10: 1107406420

Paperback, 676 pages, 24.4 x 17 x 3.6 cm
Language: English

Does terrorism have a unique and significant emotional and behavioral impact among adults and children? In what way does the impact of terrorism exceed the individual level and affect communities and specific professional groups, and test different leadership styles? How were professional communities of mental health clinicians, policy-makers and researchers mobilized to respond to the emerging needs post disaster? What are the lessons learned from the work conducted after 9/11, and the implications for future disaster mental health work and preparedness efforts? Yuval Neria and his team are uniquely placed to answer these questions having been involved in modifying ongoing trials and setting up new ones in New York to address these issues straight after the attacks. No psychiatrist, mental health professional or policy-maker should be without this book.

Foreword
Part I. Introduction
1. Mental health in the aftermath of terrorist attacks
making sense of mass casualty trauma
Part II. The Psychological Aftermath of 9/11
2. Preface
3. Posttraumatic stress symptoms in the general population after disaster
implications for public health
4. Coping with a national trauma
A nationwide longitudinal study of responses to the terrorist attacks of September 11th
5. An epidemiological response to disasters
the New York City Board of Education's Post 9/11 Needs Assessment
6. Historical perspective and future directions in research on psychiatric consequences of terrorism and other disasters
7. Capturing the impact of large-scale events through epidemiological research
challenges and obstacles
8. Mental health research in the aftermath of disasters
using the right methods to ask the right questions
Part III. Reducing the Burden
Community Response and Community Recovery
9. Community and ecological approaches to understanding and alleviating postdisaster distress (Introduction to section)
10. What is collective recovery?
11. Rebuilding communities post disaster in New York
12. Journalism and the public during catastrophes
13. Effective leadership in extreme crisis
14. Guiding community intervention following terrorist attack
Part IV. Outreach and Intervention in the Wake of Terrorist Attacks
15. Science for the community after 9/11
Part IV.i. New York Area
16. The psychological aftermath of 9/11 attacks in primary care
17. Project Liberty
responding to mental health needs after the World Trade Center terrorist attacks
18. The Mental Health Association of New York City
19. The New York Consortium for Effective Trauma Treatment
20. First responders
FDNY and Con Edison
21. The World Trade Center Worker/Volunteer Mental Health Screening Program
22. Child and adolescent trauma treatments and services after September 11
implementing evidence-based practices into complex child-serving systems
23. Relationally and developmentally focused interventions with young children and their caregivers in the wake of terrorism and other violent experiences
Part IV.ii. Washington DC
24. The mental health response to the 9/11 attacks on the Pentagon
25. Learning lessons from the early intervention response at the Pentagon (commentary)
Part IV.iii. Prolonged-Exposure Treatment as a Core Resource for Clinicians in the Community
Dissemination of Trauma Knowledge Post Disaster
26. Psychological treatments for PTSD
an Overview
27. Dissemination of prolonged exposure therapy for PTSD
successes and challenges
28. Training therapists to practice evidence-based psychotherapy after 9/11
Part V. Disasters and Mental Health
Perspectives on Response and Preparedness
29. The Epidemiology of 9-11
technological advances and conceptual conundrums
30. Searching for points of convergence
a commentary on prior research on disasters and some community programs initiated in response to September 11, 2001
31. What mental health professionals should and shouldn't do
32. Coping with the threat of terrorism
33. Preparedness and future directions
34. Lessons learned from 9/11
the boundaries of a mental health approach to mass casualty events
35. Post-disaster research
lessons learned from 9/11 and future directions.

Review of the hardback: 'This is a great and exciting book; a volume filled with stories of endeavour, achievement, appraisal and learning; stories of heroism, challenge and hope. It will become a handbook for all who would research the impact of disaster and terrorism on mental health and well-being.' Beverley Raphael