Disaster Mental Health: Around the World and Across Time, An Issue of Psychiatric Clinics

Download or read book Disaster Mental Health: Around the World and Across Time, An Issue of Psychiatric Clinics written by Craig L. Katz and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2013-09-28 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disasters! Looking beyond their acute impact to how they affect communities in the years that follow is the focus of discussion in this issue of Psychiatric Clinics. Reviews of cases of well known disasters such as 9/11, the 2004 South Asian tsunami, Hurricane Katrina, the Haiti earthquake of 2010, the 3/11/11 "triple disaster" in Northern Japan, and others are presented from the perspective of local experts who have been asked to take a long view of what they learned and may still be learning from their post-disaster experiences that mental health professionals faced with future disasters should know. World renown experts in disaster psychiatry and global psychiatry, Craig Katz and Anand Pandya, lead this publication.