Responding to disaster : a guide for mental health professionals.

Includes bibliographies and index

Conceptual framework for evaluating disaster impact: implications for clinical intervention -- Nature and treatment of acute stress reactions -- Organizing a disaster response program in one's home community -- Training mental health professionals to work with families in diverse cultural contexts -- Large-group preventive treatment techniques for use after disaster -- Clinical response to traumatized children -- Interacting with the media after trauma in the community -- The 1989 San Francisco Bay area earthquake -- The Armenian earthquake -- Forming the libidinal cocoon: the Dallas airplane crashes, the Guadalupe River drownings, and Hurricane Hugo in the Virgin Islands -- Function of mobile crisis intervention teams after Hurricane Hugo -- Management of a psychiatric inpatient service during and after Hurricane Hugo -- Tornado in Eastern North Carolina: outreach to school and community -- Research findings after a nuclear accident: Three Mile Island