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Individual and Community Responses to Trauma and Disaster: The Structure of Human Chaos » (1st Edition)
Authors: Robert J. Ursano
ISBN-13: 9780521556439, ISBN-10: 0521556430
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: August 1995
Edition: 1st Edition
Author Biography: Robert J. Ursano
Ursano, Robert J., MD (Uniformed Services Univ of the Health Sciences); McCaughey, Brian G., DO (Naval Health Sciences Education & Training Command); Fullerton, Carol S., PhD (Uniformed Services Univ of the Health Sciences)
The contributors represent the specialties of psychiatry, psychology, neuroscience, and social work. Most come from U.S. academic centers, but a few are foreign, from Australia, Norway, and Japan. Institutions prominently represented include Uniformed Services Univ of the Health Sciences, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Univ of Cincinnati, and the NIH.
Book Synopsis
A wide-ranging reference text on the effect of trauma and disasters, for health professionals and research workers.
Table of Contents
| List of contributors | ||
| Foreword | ||
| Preface | ||
| 1 | Trauma and disaster | 3 |
| 2 | The psychology of terror and its aftermath | 31 |
| 3 | Exposure to traumatic death: the nature of the stressor | 46 |
| 4 | Psychological and psychiatric aspects of technological disasters | 72 |
| 5 | Traumatic effects of accidents | 103 |
| 6 | The human experience of earthquakes | 136 |
| 7 | Psychological effects of toxic contamination | 154 |
| 8 | Social support and perceived control as moderators of responses to dioxin and flood exposure | 179 |
| 9 | Debriefing following traumatic exposure | 201 |
| 10 | Relocation stress following natural disasters | 220 |
| 11 | Group reactions to trauma: an avalanche accident | 248 |
| 12 | Community responses to disaster: the Gander plane crash | 267 |
| 13 | Children of war and children at war: child victims of terrorism in Mozambique | 287 |
| 14 | Stress and coping with the trauma of war in the Persian Gulf: the hospital ship USNS Comfort | 306 |
| 15 | Long-term sequelae of combat in World War II, Korea and Vietnam: a comparative study | 330 |
| 16 | Psychophysiological aspects of chronic stress following trauma | 360 |
| 17 | Individual and community reactions to the Kentucky floods: findings from a longitudinal study of older adults | 378 |
| 18 | The structure of human chaos | 403 |
| Index | 411 |
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