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This timely book provides current research and skill-building information on Disaster Mental Health Counseling for counselors, educators, students, and mental health responders in agencies, schools, universities, and private practice. Recognized experts in the field detail effective clinical interventions with survivors in the immediate, intermediate, and long-term aftermath of traumatic events.
This extensively revised edition, which meets 2016 CACREP Standards for disaster and trauma competencies, is divided into three sections: Disaster Mental Health Counseling Foundations, Disaster and Trauma Response in the Community, and Disasters and Mass Violence at Schools and Universities. Real-world responses to violence and tragedies among diverse populations in a variety of settings are presented, and responders share their personal stories and vital lessons learned through an "In Our Own Words" feature. Each chapter contains discussion questions and case studies are interwoven throughout the text.
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Editors
About the Contributors
Section 1 Disaster Mental Health Counseling Foundations
Chapter 1 Understanding Disaster Mental Health
Chapter 2 Disaster Mental Health Counseling: Skills and Strategies
Chapter 3 How the Brain and Body Change After a Disaster
Chapter 4 Assessing Needs of Disaster Affected Individuals: Tools and Treatment
Chapter 5 Compassion Fatigue: Our Achilles’ Heel
Chapter 6 Ethics Narratives From Lived Experiences of Disaster and Trauma Counselors
Section 2 Disaster and Trauma Response in the Community
Chapter 7 Responding to Mass Violence and the Pulse Nightclub Massacre
Chapter 9 Children and Adolescents in Disasters: Promoting Recovery and Resilience
Chapter 11 Counseling Refugees
Chapter 12 International Deployment and Disaster Mental Health Counselors
Section 3 Disasters and Mass Violence in Schools and Universities
Chapter 13 School Disaster Mental Health
Chapter 14 Disaster Recovery in Newtown: The Intermediate Phase
Chapter 15 School Shootings in Perspective
Chapter 16 University Disaster Mental Health Response
Chapter 17 Disaster Mental Health and Trauma Counseling: The Next Decade
Appendix A Disaster, Trauma, and Crisis Competencies in the 2016 CACREP Standards
Appendix B DSM-5 Diagnostic Criteria for Acute Stress Disorder and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Appendix C Mass Trauma Counseling Ethical Guidelines
References
Index