Lessons learned in disaster mental health: the earthquake in Armenia and beyond

This fascinating book provides a comprehensive overview of the extensive post-disaster mental health recovery program implemented after the 1988 Armenian earthquake. Covering the program's evolution, from the initial acute phase of clinical fieldwork, to its expansion as a three-year teaching a...

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Other Authors: Goenjian, Armen ca. 20./21. Jh (Editor), Steinberg, Alan M. (Editor), Pynoos, Robert S. 1947- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2021
Series:Cambridge medicine (Series)
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108877992
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108877992
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108877992
Summary:This fascinating book provides a comprehensive overview of the extensive post-disaster mental health recovery program implemented after the 1988 Armenian earthquake. Covering the program's evolution, from the initial acute phase of clinical fieldwork, to its expansion as a three-year teaching and training program for local therapists, to the building of mental health clinics in devastated cities. Featuring poignant memoirs detailing the daily challenges and rewards of working in the trenches, the book presents a conceptual framework that can guide post-disaster clinical and research efforts, lessons learned from this work and other disasters, and highlights recent advances in disaster psychiatry. This school-based intervention program has informed subsequent disaster response efforts in many countries and has provided clinically relevant cutting-edge research findings from longitudinal and treatment outcomes studies conducted over 25 years. Essential reading for psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers and other mental health professionals and those working for relief organizations following disasters
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The 1988 Spitak Earthquake in Armenia and the Implementation of the Psychiatric Outreach Program / Armen Goenjian -- Diaspora Therapists Working in the Earthquake Zone / Armen Goenjian -- Treatment Outcome Among Early Adolescents Two Decades Post-Earthquake / Armen Goenjian, Alan Steinberg, Robert Pynoos -- Course and Predictors of PTSD and Depression Among Not Treated Children and Adolescents Over Two Decades / Armen Goenjian, Alan Steinberg, Robert Pynoos -- Conscience, Moral injury, and Psychopathology / Barbara Stilwell, Matthew Galvin -- Natural Disasters and Relocation / Louis M. Najarian, David Pelcovitz -- Long-Term Course of PTSD and Depression Among Adults and Current Trends for Treatment / Armen Goenjian, Alan Steinberg, Robert Pynoos -- How the Spitak Earthquake Contributed to our Understanding of the Genetics of PTSD and Associated Disorders / Julie Bailey, Armen Goenjian -- Epidemiology of Disasters and The Spitak Earthquake / Vahe Khachadourian, Haroutune K. Armenian -- Traumatic Stress Conceptual Framework / Alan Steinberg, Robert Pynoos, Armen Goenjian -- Memoirs of the Spitak Earthquake / Pavagan Petrosyan, Ida Karayan PsyD, Liana H. Grigorian -- Lessons Learned from the Spitak Earthquake and Other Catastrophic Disasters / Armen Goenjian, Alan Steinberg, Robert Pynoos
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (x, 214 Seiten)
ISBN:9781108877992
DOI:10.1017/9781108877992