Some questions and problems in dealing with the relationship between community disasters and mental health consequences.

By:

Quarantelli, E. L. (Enrico Louis), 1924-

Contributor(s):

University of Delaware. Disaster Research Center

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: ENG Publication details: 1984Description: 67p., 112 refsReport number: Academic; DRC-PRELIMINARY-PAPER-93

Contents:

Subject: This report was prepared in December 1983 in response to a series of questions posed by Mandex Inc., who were carrying out a study supported by NIMH that was concerned with the development of mental health needs assessment guidelines for disasters. The report was divided into two papers. The first deals with the general issue of how it might be possible to distinguish the characteristics of disasters which affect mental health outcomes. The second addresses the general issue of how disasters might affect community delivery services and social support systems

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1st Paper: Introduction; Our views: What is a disaster? What are the characteristics of Disasters? What is Trauma Potential? What is Mental Health?; 2nd Paper: Part One: Introduction; What is a Community? Conceptions of Community structure and functioning; Part Two: Evacuation behavior; Shelter behavior; A few general implications

This report was prepared in December 1983 in response to a series of questions posed by Mandex Inc., who were carrying out a study supported by NIMH that was concerned with the development of mental health needs assessment guidelines for disasters. The report was divided into two papers. The first deals with the general issue of how it might be possible to distinguish the characteristics of disasters which affect mental health outcomes. The second addresses the general issue of how disasters might affect community delivery services and social support systems

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