Title Disasters and mental health / edited by Juan José López-Ibor [and others]

Published Chichester, West Sussex ; Hoboken, NJ : J. Wiley, [2005] ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 275 pages) Series World Psychiatric Association ; v. 4 World Psychiatric Association Contents What is a disaster? / Juan Jose Lopez-Ibor -- Psychological and psychopathological consequences of disasters / Carol S. Fullerton and Robert J. Ursano -- Psychiatric morbidity following disasters : epidemiology, risk and protective factors / Alexander C. McFarlane -- Re-evaluating the link between disasters and psychopathology / Rachel Yehuda and Linda M. Bierer -- Psychological interventions for people exposed to disasters / Mordechai (Moty) Benyakar and Carlos R. Collazo -- Organization of mental health services for disaster victims / Louis Crocq [and others] -- The experience of the Kobe earthquake / Naotaka Shinfuku -- The experience of the Marmara earthquake / Peykan G. Gokalp -- The experience of the Athens earthquake / George N. Christodoulou, Thomas J. Paparrigopoulos and Constantin R. Soldatos -- The experience of the Nairobi US embassy bombing / Frank Njenga and Caroline Nyamai -- The New York experience : terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 / Lynn E. DeLisi -- The experience of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster / Johan M. Havenaar and Evelyn J. Bromet -- The experience of the Bhopal disaster / R. Srinivasa Murthy -- The Latin American and Caribbean experience / Jose Miguel Caldas de Almeida and Jorge Rodriguez -- The Israeli experience / Arieh Y. Shalev -- The Palestinian experience / Eyad El Sarraj and Samir Qouta -- The experience of Bosnia-Herzegovina : psychosocial consequences of war atrocities on children / Syed Arshad Husain -- The Serbian experience / Dusica Lecic-Tosevski and Saveta Draganic-Gajic -- The Croatian experience / Vera Folnegovic Smalc -- Statement by the World Psychiatric Association on mental health implications of disasters Summary This title provides a comprehensive overview of clinical, epidemiological, psychobiological, psychosocial and service organization aspects of disaster psychiatry. It takes a practical approach and includes a series of reports on significant experiences made in this field in various regions of the world. An Unbiased and reliable reference point, endorsed by the WPAIncludes contributions from internationally acclaimed experts Analysis Medical Sciences FACsci ER Internet Book Full text Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Disasters -- Psychological aspects. Disasters -- Psychological aspects -- Case studies Disaster victims -- Mental health Post-traumatic stress disorder. Disasters. Stress Disorders, Traumatic -- psychology Disasters Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic disasters. PSYCHOLOGY -- Psychopathology -- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Disasters Disaster victims -- Mental health Disasters -- Psychological aspects Post-traumatic stress disorder Genre/Form Electronic books Case studies Form Electronic book Author López-Ibor Aliño, J. J. (Juan José), 1941-2015 ISBN 9780470021255 047002125X 9780470021248 0470021241 1280275227 9781280275227 9786610275229 661027522X

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