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Book Detail
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Disaster Psychiatry: Readiness, Evaluation, and Treatment
Stoddard, Frederick J., Ed.
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Publisher: American Psychiatric Press, Inc. Affiliation: Harvard Medical School Dimensions: 9.0 x 1.0 x 6.0 in
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Synopsis:
Contents: Preface. Introduction. Section I: Readiness. Preparation and systems issues: integrating into a disaster response. Communicating risk before, during, and after a disaster. Rescuing ourselves: self-care in the disaster response community. Needs assessment. Section II: Evaluation. Psychiatric evaluation. Special populations. Serious mental illness. Substance abuse. Personality issues. Injuries and triage of medical complaints. Grief and resilience. Section III: Intervention. Psychological first aid. Family and group interventions. Psychotherapies. Psychopharmacology: acute phase. Psychopharmacology: postacute phase. Child and adolescent psychiatry interventions. Geriatric psychiatry interventions. Section IV: Emerging and Other Topics. Psychiatrists as ambassadors. Legal and ethical issues. Telepsychiatry in disasters and public health emergencies. Section V: Appendices. Index.
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