Disasters : mental health context and responses

Disasters : mental health context and responses / edited by George N. Christodoulou, Juan E. Mezzich, Nikos G. Christoduolou and Dusica Lecic-Tosevski.

The issue of the mental health consequences of disasters is always timely, but, at present, its consideration serves a pressing need if one takes into account the great number of co-existing and super-imposed disasters occurring throughout the world. Taking Greece as an example, on top of the econom...

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Other Authors: Christodoulou, G. N. (Editor), Mezzich, Juan E. (Editor), Christodoulou, Nikos G. (Editor), Lecic-Tosevski, Dusica (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.
Subjects:
Disaster victims > Mental health.
Stress (Psychology)
Stress (Physiology)
Disasters.
disasters.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Disasters
Disaster victims > Mental health
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Natural Disasters
  • Disaster Psychiatry in Greece
  • The Dynamics of Psychosocial Interventions in Natural Disasters
  • Disasters: An Indian Experience
  • Managing Disasters: Pakistani Experience
  • Person-centered Global Perspectives and Latin American Experience on Disaster Response
  • Women's Mental Health in Disaster Psychiatry
  • Psychological Effects on Military Personnel Assigned to Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Response Missions
  • General Principles in the Psychosocial Management of Damaged People in Disasters
  • Lessons for Mental Health Education Learned from the 1999 Marmara Earthquake
  • Neurobiology of PTSD
  • Human -Made (or Man-Made) Disasters
  • War and the Mental Health of Civilians
  • Conflict Situations and Mental Health Care in Developing Countries
  • Crises and Disasters
  • Psychopathological Consequences of the Chernobyl Disaster
  • Neglected Factors in Addressing Violence as a Man-Made Disaster
  • Resilience and Vulnerability in Coping with Terrorism and Political Violence
  • Public Health and International Law
  • The Spiral of Trauma and its Consequences
  • Economic Disasters
  • The Impact of Economic Crises on Health
  • Individual and Systemic Mental Health Effects of Economic Crises and their Associated Measures
  • Mental Health Repercussions of the Economic Disaster in Greece
  • Suicidality and the Current Economic Crisis in Europe
  • Criminality and Suicide at the Onset and during the Financial Crisis in Greece
  • The Coverage of Suicides by the Mass Media during the Recent Greek Economic Crisis
  • Farmers' Suicide in India
  • Catastrophe in Theater as the Point of Reversal
  • Appendix I
  • Appendix II
  • Appendix III.

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