Responding to Disaster: A Guide for Mental Health Professionals

Resource Type

Book

Description

"This volume serves as a guide to organizing mental health services when disaster strikes a community. Through firsthand accounts of real-life disasters, experts in disaster response work illustrate how to evaluate disaster impact, organize a clinical response, and train mental health professionals to deal with these unique situations."--(www.appi.org)

Ages

All Ages

Age Groups

Adulthood (22+)

Languages

English

ISBN

0880484640

Author

Linda S. Austin M.D.

Publication

1992 American Psychiatric Publishing

Availability

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• American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc - American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc. (APPI) is the world's premier publisher of books, journals, and multimedia on psychiatry, mental health and behavioral science. We offer authoritative, up-to-date and affordable information geared toward psychiatrists, other mental health professionals, psychiatric residents, medical students and the general public.
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