Disasters and Mental Health (eBook)

Mario Maj, University of Naples, Italy.

Disasters and Mental Health 3
Contents 7
List of Contributors 9
Preface 13
Chapter 1 What is a Disaster? 15
Chapter 2 Psychological and Psychopathological Consequences of Disasters 27
Chapter 3 Psychiatric Morbidity Following Disasters: Epidemiology, Risk and Protective Factors 51
Chapter 4 Re-evaluating the Link between Disasters and Psychopathology 79
Chapter 5 Psychological Interventions for People Exposed to Disasters 95
Chapter 6 Organization of Mental Health Services for Disaster Victims 113
Mental Health Consequences of Disasters: Experiences in Various Regions of the World 139
Chapter 7 The Experience of the Kobe Earthquake 141
Chapter 8 The Experience of the Marmara Earthquake 151
Chapter 9 The Experience of the Athens Earthquake 159
Chapter 10 The Experience of the Nairobi US Embassy Bombing 167
Chapter 11 The New York Experience: Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001 181
Chapter 12 The Experience of the Chornobyl Nuclear Disaster 193
Chapter 13 The Experience of the Bhopal Disaster 207
Chapter 14 The Latin American and Caribbean Experience 215
Chapter 15 The Israeli Experience 231
Chapter 16 The Palestinian Experience 243
Chapter 17 The Experience of Bosnia-Herzegovina: Psychosocial Consequences of War Atrocities on Children 253
Chapter 18 The Serbian Experience 261
Chapter 19 The Croatian Experience 271
Appendix – Statement by the World Psychiatric Association on Mental Health Implications of Disasters 277
Index 279

"...will inform mental health care providers and
epidemiologists, as well as those that study and plan disaster
response worldwide." (E-STREAMS, April 2006)

"Highly recommended to all physicians who practice within the
realm of psychological medicine...recommended to Health Science
libraries as a general reference text..." (Electric
Review, November/December 2005)

"This timely book will help us maximize what we are summoned to
bear when disaster inevitably strikes next." (New England
Journal of Medicine, August 25, 2005)

"This book offers an excellent source of research in the
area...vital for those who prepare prevention and response to
local and international crises." (Doody's Health
Services)