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Hidden Impact: What You Need to Know for the Next Disaster: A Practical Mental Health Guide for Clinicians

Author(s): Frederick J. Stoddard Jr., MD, Harvard Medical School, Shriner's Burn Hospital
Craig L. Katz, MD, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Joseph P. Merlino, MD, MPA, State University of New York, Downstate Medical School
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  • ISBN-13: 9780763768751
  • Paperback    254 pages      © 2010
Price: International Sales $58.95 US List
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Hidden Impact: What You Need to Know for the Next Disaster guides primary care clinicians in preparing and responding effectively to future disasters based on current knowledge from the growing field of disaster mental health. Written by nine expert disaster psychiatrists, this handbook is organized into three major sections: Preparation, Assessment and Interventions. The first section, Preparation, covers the disaster response system, self-care, and getting involved. The second section, Assessment, provides assessment scales for screening for mental health issues, suicidality, issues in children and families, special populations, and bereavement. The third section, Interventions aims to provide therapeutic guidance through psychological first aid, psychosocial interventions, psychopharmacology, collaborative care, and international perspectives.

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INTRODUCTION: What Is A Disaster And How Does It Relate To Mental Health?

 Part 1:  PREPARATION

1  Getting Involved
2  The Disaster Response System
3  Self-care
4  Roughing It
5  Risk Communication  

Part 2:  ASSESSMENT

6  Assessment: a spectrum from normal to psychopathology
7  Assessment of Suicidality
8  Screening for Mental Health Issues
9  Children & Families
10  Medically Unexplained Symptoms
11  Difficult Encounters
12  Special Populations
13  Bereavement

Part 3:  INTERVENTION

14  Psychological First Aid
15  Working with Responders
16  Social Interventions
17  Psychological Interventions
18  Psychopharmacology
19  Collaborative care
20  Staff Support
21  International Perspectives

 Part 4:  SPECIAL ISSUES

22  Tele-Psychiatry  
23  Liability Issues
24  Ethics

Part 5:  EPILOGUE
Life After the Disaster: followup, resilience and recovery

 


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Frederick J. Stoddard Jr., MD-Harvard Medical School, Shriner's Burn Hospital

Craig L. Katz, MD-Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Joseph P. Merlino, MD, MPA-State University of New York, Downstate Medical School

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