Handbook of International Disaster Psychology

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Handbook of International Disaster Psychology [Four Volumes]

Gilbert Reyes, Gerard A. Jacobs, ed.

ISBN: 0-275-98315-3

ISBN-13: 978-0-275-98315-4

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1032 pages

Praeger Publishers

Publication: 12/30/2005

List Price: $315.00 (UK Sterling Price: £217.95)

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Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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Series Title: Contemporary Psychology

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The emerging field of international disaster psychology is dedicated to the conduct of research and the planning of programs and projects to improve the psychological and emotional well being of people affected by disasters. In this four-volume set, Reyes and Jacobs have solicited contributions from authors involved in developing programs and projects.
—SciTech Book News March 2006
[R]eaders involved in the psychological wellbeing of disaster survivors will find the firsthand accounts inspirational and instructive.
—Foreword This Week February 15, 2006
Disaster psychology is a relatively new discipline focusing on culturally relevant, community-based crisis intervention and stress reduction for survivors. This timely handbook has a surprising focus, especially in the first volume. Rather than serving as a clinical work, this multivolume set emphasizes program design and evaluation, coordination of humanitarian organizations, rapid response, assessment of needs, and cultural sensitivity to groups. Contributors write about the aftermath of disaster as a public health problem requiring psychosocial programming. Additionally, they discuss key issues such as the ethics of doing research at a disaster site, or the blurring of military and humanitarian operations and subsequent mortal threats to relief workers. They describe from personal experience how to implement programs for survivors (volume 2), how to assist refugees (volume 3), and how to help people with special needs, such as child soldiers, sexually abused women, and victims of torture (volume 4). A refrain throughout is that psychological distress after disaster is a normal response to abnormal events, and that suffering may be experienced collectively rather than individually....Beyond psychology, this handbook is appropriate for human rights, public health, disaster preparedness, public policy, and social work collections....Highly recommended. Advanced undergraduates and beyond.
—Choice 9/1/2006

Description: A remarkable team of expert authors provides firsthand accounts from disaster survivors around the globe, enabling readers to understand the lingering trauma and mental wounds that might otherwise go unrecognized, yet last a lifetime. These are the men, women, and children who the new field of disaster psychology seeks to heal. They include survivors of torture, terrorism, genocide attempts, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunami, and other manmade or natural disasters. This set of books is the most comprehensive available resource explaining the practices and principles that have been employed, and are being employed, to heal them.

The stories in these pages will prove instructive and inspirational to all concerned with promoting the psychological welfare of people who have endured horrific events triggered by the violence and upheaval of mankind or nature at their worst. Contributors to this set include professors from Columbia, Harvard and Johns Hopkins universities, as well as the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, and the World Health Organization.

Table of Contents:

Volume 1, Fundamental Issues and Overview
Set Foreword
Acknowledgments
Preface
Prologue
Overview of the International Disaster Psychology Volumes
Chapter 1: International Disaster Psychology: Purposes, Principles and Practices
Chapter 2: Humanitarian Politics and the Rise of International Disaster Psychology
Chapter 3: Toward a Consensus Protocol for Psychosocial Response in Complex Emergencies
Chapter 4: In Defense of Community Psychology for International Intervention
Chapter 5: Assessing the Psychosocial Needs of Communities Affected By Disaster
Chapter 6: Peace-Building, Culturally Responsive Means, and Ethical Practices in Humanitarian Interventions
Chapter 7: Effective Intercultural Collaboration on Support Programs
Chapter 8: Working Effectively with the Mass Media in Disaster Mental Health
Chapter 9: Negotiating the Shrunken Humanitarian Space: Challenges and Options
Conclusions and Recommendations
Epilogue
Index
About the Volume Editors
About the Contributors
About the Series
About the Series Editor and Advisory Board
Volume 2, Programs and Practices
Series Foreword
Acknowledgments
Preface
Prologue
Overview of the International Disaster Psychology Volumes
Chapter 1: Psychological First Aid
Chapter 2: Interventions with Youth and Families: A Prevention and Stepped Care Model
Chapter 3: Implementing Programs in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia: Was It Really Mission Impossible?
Chapter 4: Implementation of Mental Health Programs for Survivors of Natural Disasters in Latin America
Chapter 5: Psychological Support Following the Venezuelan Floods and Mudslides of 1999
Chapter 6: Implementation of a Training of Trainers Model for Disseminating Psychological Support in the Cuban Red Cross
Chapter 7: Responses to the Bombing of the American Embassy in Nairobi: Challenges, Lessons And Opportunities
Chapter 8: Psychosocial Research and Interventions after the Rwanda Genocide
Chapter 9: Approaches to Healing: Case Examples from Lusophone Africa
Chapter 10: Monitoring and Evaluating Psychosocial Work with Children in Sri Lanka
Conclusions and Recommendations
Epilogue
Index
About the Volumes Editors
About the Contributors
About the Series Editor and Advisors
Volume 3, Refugee Mental Health
Series Foreword
Acknowledgments
Preface
Prologue
Overview of the International Disaster Psychology Volumes
Chapter 1: The Impact of Mass Psychological Trauma on Psychosocial Adaptation Among Refugees
Chapter 2: Serving the Mental Health Needs of Post-Migratory Adult Refugees in Sweden: A Transitional Augmentation Approach
Chapter 3: Framework for Developing and Implementing Multi-Family Groups for Refugee Families
Chapter 4: Mental Health Reform and Assisting Psychiatric Leaders in Post-War Countries
Chapter 5: The Healing Power of Forgiveness and the Resolution of Protracted Conflicts
Chapter 6: Personal Reflections on 30 Years of Treating Traumatized Refugees
Chapter 7: Challenges in International Disaster Mental Health Research
Chapter 8: Development of the Rapid Assessment of Mental Health: An International Collaboration
Conclusions and Recommendations
Epilogue
Appendix: WHO Tool for Rapid Assessment of Mental Health Needs
Index
About the Volumes Editors
About the Contributors
About the Series Editor and Advisors
Volume 4, Interventions with Special Needs Populations
Series Foreword
Acknowledgments
Preface
Prologue
Overview of the International Disaster Psychology Volumes
Chapter 1: Crisis and Gender: Addressing the Psychosocial Needs of Women in International Disasters
Chapter 2: Sexual Violence Against Women and Children in the Context of Armed Conflict
Chapter 3: How Do You Mend Broken Hearts? Gender, War and Impacts on Girls in Fighting Forces
Chapter 4: Children Affected by Armed Conflict in South Asia: A Regional Summary
Chapter 5: Serving the Psychosocial Needs of Torture Survivors
Chapter 6: Managing Stress in Humanitarian Aid Workers: The Role of the Organization
Chapter 7: Psychosocial Crisis Intervention with Military and Emergency Services Personnel
Chapter 8: Helping Journalists Who Cover Humanitarian Crises
Conclusions and Recommendations
Epilogue
Appendix: Brief Profiles of Humanitarian Organizations
Index
About the Volumes Editors
About the Contributors
About the Series Editor and Advisors

About the Author: Gilbert Reyes is Associate Dean for Clinical Training at Fielding Graduate University in Santa Barbara. He has been called to assist people trying to recover mental health after disasters, including the September 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center, the bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, and numerous hurricane and disaster sites. He has been a consultant to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and, in 2002, co-authored that organization's training manual for community-based psychological support. He lectures nationally on disaster mental health intervention.

Gerard A. Jacobs is Director of the Disaster Mental Health Institute and a Professor of Psychology at the University of South Dakota. He is active in field work, training, program development and consultation nationally and internationally for the Red Cross and the American Psychological Association. He is co-author of the WHO Tool for the Rapid Assessment of Mental Health (2001). A consultant to the World Health Organization from 1999 to 2002, he has worked at disaster sites as varied as the bombing of the U.S. Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995 to the deadly earthquake in India in 2001. He was the Red Cross point person on site after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. Jacobs served on the Institute of Medicine Committee on Responding to the Psychological Consequences of Terrorism. He works with the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center in psychological support training and program development.


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