Table of Contents:
  • Ch. 1. Psychosocial, Ecological, and Community Perspectives on Disaster Response / Richard Gist, Bernard Lubin and Bradley G. Redburn
  • Ch. 2. The Experience of Disaster: Individuals and Communities Sharing Trauma / Krzysztof Kaniasty and Fran Norris
  • Ch. 3. The Short- and Long-Term Psychological Impact of Disasters: Implications for Mental Health Interventions and Policy / Mark S. Salzer and Leonard Bickman
  • Ch. 4. Assessing the Impact of Trauma in Work-Related Populations: Occupational and Cultural Determinants of Traumatic Reactivity / Douglas Paton, Leigh M. Smith and Robert Ramsay / [and others]
  • Ch. 5. A Critical Look at PTSD: Constructs, Concepts, Epidemiology, and Implications / Jeffrey P. Staab, Carol S. Fullerton and Robert J. Ursano
  • Ch. 6. The Help-Seeking Process for Distress after Disasters / Suzanne Yates, Danny Axsom and Karyn Tiedeman
  • Ch. 7. Coping with Disastrous Events: An Empowerment Model of Community Healing / Julie van den Eynde and Arthur Veno
  • Ch. 8. Children's Responses to Disaster: Family and Systems Approaches / Eric M. Vernberg
  • Ch. 9. There Are No Simple Solutions to Complex Problems: The Rise and Fall of Critical Incident Stress Debriefing as a Response to Occupational Stress in the Fire Service / Richard Gist and S. Joseph Woodall
  • Ch. 10. Ethical Issues in Working with Communities in Crisis / Patrick O'Neill
  • Ch. 11. "And then you do the Hokey-Pokey and you turn yourself around ..." / Richard Gist, S. Joseph Woodall and Lynn K. Magenheimer
  • Ch. 12. Pseudoscience and the Commercial Promotion of Trauma Treatments / Jeffrey M. Lohr, Robert W. Montgomery and Scott O. Lilienfeld / [and others]
  • Ch. 13. In the Public Arena: Disaster as a Socially Constructed Problem / Lennis G. Echterling and Mary Lou Wylie.