Περιγραφή
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.
- Provides an evidence-base for clinically relevant trauma and grief treatment strategies and treatment outcome findings, improving the clinical understanding and skills of mental health workers treating disaster survivors.
- Demonstrates the feasibility of conducting tiered provision of wide-scale school-based mental health intervention that can maximize the effectiveness of limited resources after major disasters and ultimately provides an advanced paradigm for disaster behavioral health response planners and researchers.
- Highlights both the rewards and hardships experienced by therapists working in the disaster zone, helping to prepare prospective mental health workers for this fulfilling work in disaster settings.
