Lessons Learned in Disaster Mental Health
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Lessons Learned in Disaster Mental Health

The Earthquake in Armenia and Beyond

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Lessons Learned in Disaster Mental Health

The Earthquake in Armenia and Beyond

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Frontispiece
  4. Title page
  5. Copyright page
  6. Contents
  7. Dedication
  8. Preface
  9. List of Contributors
  10. Chapter 1 The 1988 Spitak Earthquake in Armenia and the Implementation of the Psychiatric Outreach Program
  11. Chapter 2 Diaspora Therapists Working in the Earthquake Zone
  12. Chapter 3 Treatment Outcome among Early Adolescents Two Decades Post-Earthquake
  13. Chapter 4 Course and Predictors of PTSD and Depression among Not Treated Children and Adolescents over Two Decades
  14. Chapter 5 Conscience, Moral Injury, and Psychopathology
  15. Chapter 6 Natural Disasters and Relocation
  16. Chapter 7 Long-Term Course of PTSD and Depression Among Adults, Mediating and Moderating Factors in Recovery, and Current Trends for Treatment
  17. Chapter 8 How the Spitak Earthquake Contributed to our Understanding of the Genetics of PTSD and Associated Disorders
  18. Chapter 9 Epidemiology of Disasters and the Spitak Earthquake
  19. Chapter 10 Traumatic Stress Conceptual Framework
  20. Chapter 11 Memoirs of the Spitak Earthquake
  21. Chapter 12 Lessons Learned from the Spitak Earthquake and Other Catastrophic Disasters
  22. Index