9/11 Mental Health in the Wake of Terrorist Attacks [Hardcover]

A handbook for all who would research the impact of disaster and terrorism on mental health and well-being.What are the lessons learned from the work conducted after 9/11, and the implications for future disaster mental health work and preparedness efforts? The authors of this book answer these questions after having been involved in modifying ongoing trials and setting up new ones in New York to address these issues straight after the attacks.What are the lessons learned from the work conducted after 9/11, and the implications for future disaster mental health work and preparedness efforts? The authors of this book answer these questions after having been involved in modifying ongoing trials and setting up new ones in New York to address these issues straight after the attacks.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 as well as 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 llÆ