Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Editors brief bio
- List of contributors
- Foreword
- Part I Introduction
- Part II The psychological aftermath of 9/11
- Part III Reducing the burden: community response and community recovery
- Part IV Outreach and intervention in the wake of terrorist attacks
- Part IV A New York area
- Part IV B Washington, DC
- Part IV C Prolonged-exposure treatment as a core resource for clinicians in the community: dissemination of trauma knowledge post-disaster
- 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 should not do
- 32 Coping with the threat of terrorism
- 33 Life under the “new normal”: notes on the future of preparedness
- 34 Lessons learned from 9/11: the boundaries of a mental health approach to mass casualty events
- 35 Learning from 9/11: implications for disaster research and public health
- Index
35 - Learning from 9/11: implications for disaster research and public health
from Part V - Disasters and mental health: perspectives on response and preparedness
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 October 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Editors brief bio
- List of contributors
- Foreword
- Part I Introduction
- Part II The psychological aftermath of 9/11
- Part III Reducing the burden: community response and community recovery
- Part IV Outreach and intervention in the wake of terrorist attacks
- Part IV A New York area
- Part IV B Washington, DC
- Part IV C Prolonged-exposure treatment as a core resource for clinicians in the community: dissemination of trauma knowledge post-disaster
- 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 should not do
- 32 Coping with the threat of terrorism
- 33 Life under the “new normal”: notes on the future of preparedness
- 34 Lessons learned from 9/11: the boundaries of a mental health approach to mass casualty events
- 35 Learning from 9/11: implications for disaster research and public health
- Index
Summary
This volume aims to capture something of the extraordinary breadth and depth of mental health services and research that followed the September 11 attacks – efforts that were often happening simultaneously and in isolation from one another. It is a kind of documentary of the post-9/11 mental health responses. We also hope that this book serves as a partial remedy to the fragmentary nature of mental health services and research in the USA, and in particular, after all large-scale disasters. It is multi-disciplinary, such that most readers will encounter perspectives on mental health, community, or disaster theory that are foreign to their professional point of view. Although cooperation and tolerance after disaster are ubiquitous, there are also bitter rivalries and fierce struggles for scarce resources. Disaster can evoke the best, and the worst, in any community. We hope that this book and others like it will help to counteract the often tribalistic rivalry of the disciplines presented herein and encourage efforts to communicate effectively, toward genuine collaboration after future disasters.
The psychological aftermath of 9/11
What sets the post-9/11 epidemiologic work apart from prior disaster studies is its scope and methodology, a methodology that reflects a shift in balancing the often competing needs of scientific rigor and timely implementation. Rapidly implemented large-scale studies like these are extremely difficult to do, but serve a crucial humanitarian purpose in that they can inform program development in the early weeks of a disaster.
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- 9/11: Mental Health in the Wake of Terrorist Attacks , pp. 617 - 630Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006