Responding to Disaster: A Guide for Mental Health Professionals (Clinical Practice, 24) - Hardcover

 
9780880484640: Responding to Disaster: A Guide for Mental Health Professionals (Clinical Practice, 24)

Synopsis

This volume aims to serves as a guide to organising mental health services when disaster strikes a community. Through firsthand accounts of real-life disasters, experts in disaster response work illustrate how to evaluate disaster impact and organise a clinical response. The book includes new case materials on Hurricane Hugo and the San Francisco earthquake.

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Review

Overall, the book provides the reader with a useful insight into the nature and impact of disasters and the complex role of mental health professionals in the post-disaster response.

--Criminal Behavior and Mental Health

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