Tsunami Disaster
Below is a list of information currently available from the National Center
for PTSD on Tsunamis and other severe natural disasters. For more information,
click on the related links and/or search the PILOTS database
for a more complete listing of articles available on this topic.
Fact Sheets
The
Tsunami and Mental Health: What Can We Expect?
A brief review of risk factors for the development of mental health issues
following natural disasters such as the tsunami.
Psychosocial
Consequences of Natural Disasters in Developing Countries: What Does Past
Research Tell Us About the Potential Effects of the 2004 Tsunami?
A more extensive review of the research literature on the effects of severe
natural disasters by Dr. Fran Norris. The fact sheet may also be downloaded
as a pdf.
Helping
Survivors in the Wake of Disaster
Concise information for volunteers, mental-health clinicians, chaplains, and
medical personnel about the effects of traumatic stress and how to help survivors
of disasters
Disaster Response Workers
Disaster
Rescue and Response Workers
Information about the effects of traumatic stress on disaster rescue and response
workers, as well as coping and self-care strategies
Working
with Trauma Survivors
In-depth information for volunteers, rescue workers, health care workers, and
journalists
Understanding Disaster Trauma
Effects
of Traumatic Stress in a Disaster Situation
Information about the effects of traumatic stress in a disaster situation,
including PTSD, Acute Stress Disorder, bereavement, and other common traumatic
stress reactions
Early Mental
Health Intervention for Disasters
Discusses factors that influence prevention of problems following disasters, obstacles to help-seeking, early intervention, and basic principles
of emergency care, including Psychological First Aid.
Disaster Handouts and Manuals including Psychological First Aid
An evidence-informed modular approach for assisting people in the immediate aftermath of disaster and terrorism: to reduce initial distress,
and to foster short and long-term adaptive functioning.
Secondary Mental Health Treatment Following Disasters
Discusses follow-up to initial emergency care following a disaster, including: timing, who should receive care, content of care, and how to
maximize follow-up care.
Types of Debriefing Following Disasters
Describes several types of debriefing following a trauma, and discusses the pros and cons of this form of mental health intervention.
Empirical Evidence Regarding Behavioral Treatments for PTSD
A review of some of the empirical information regarding various mental health treatments for PTSD.
Phases of
Traumatic Stress Reactions in a Disaster
Describes the normal phases of traumatic stress reactions in a disaster situation.
Grief and Death
Casualty
and Death Notification
A curriculum on compassionate casualty/death notification for professional
counselors and victim advocates
Managing
Grief after Disaster
Information about the nature of traumatic bereavement and grief as well as
risk factors and treatment options
Early Intervention
Early
Intervention for Trauma: Current Status and Future Directions
Identifies the core issues in early intervention that need to be addressed
in resolving the debate over psychological debriefing (PD). It critiques the
available evidence for PD and the early provision of cognitive behavorial therapy.
Recommendations
for Pharmacologic Treatment of Acute Stress Reactions
Provides recommendations on pharmacologic treatment for acute stress reactions.
Treating Survivors
in the Acute Aftermath of Traumatic Events
A treatment model for acute stress is described.
Cautions on Mental
Health Interventions Provided Within a Month of Trauma
Describes the issues commonly encountered in individuals with Acute Stress
Disorder or early traumatic stress, which must be carefully addressed in considering
treatment options for these individuals
Publications and Newsletters
Psychological Consequences
of Disaster
A Research Quarterly publication by Dr. Fran Norris
Traumatic Loss and
the Syndrome of Complicated Grief
A Research Quarterly publication by Drs. Shear and Smith-Caroff
Natural and
Technological Disasters
A book chapter by Somasundaram, Norris, Asukai, and Murthy.
Emergency Outreach
Guidelines
A Clinical Quarterly publication by Bruce Young
Other Publications
This fact sheet, provided by the Uniformed Services University of the Health
Sciences, provides Psychological First Aid information for helping victims
in the immediate aftermath of disaster.
Disaster Mental Health Services: A
Guidebook for Clinicians and Administrators
Provides practical guidelines and background information to assist clinicians,
administrators, and their organizations in developing disaster mental health
response strategies, disaster mental health team formation and maintenance,
and strategies for interfacing with the federal disaster response system.
Website links
Research Education in Disaster Mental Health (REDMH)
REDMH is an educational program, funded by NIMH, created to inform, instruct,
advise, and mentor disaster researchers. REDMH is co-sponsored by Dartmouth
College and the National Center for PTSD. On this site you will find research
summaries to inform the scientific community about topics salient after major
disasters, instructional materials such as summaries from a book on research
education in disaster mental health, contact information for those looking
for advising on a particular project, and information about a mentoring program
for promising newcomers to the field.
American Red Cross
This site focuses on the immediate needs of disaster stricken areas providing
information on services, news and more.
Center for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC)
This CDC site contains information on public health issues related to the Tsunami
disaster.
Center for International Disaster Information
Information on South Asia earthquake and tsunami donations, incidence reports,
education and more.
World Health Organization (WHO):
The United Nations specialized agency for health, Director-General's statement,
latest situation report.
UNICEF (the United Nations Children's
Fund)
This site contains a description of UNICEF's relief response and links to relevant
articles.
US Pacific Command This
site provides press releases, photos and up to date news links on the tsunami
relief efforts. Information is centered around Operation: Unified Assistance,
the U.S. tsunami relief effort.
Relief: How to Help
USAID
disaster assistance
United States Agency for International Development
The
Boston Globe
An article in the Boston Globe with suggestions about how to help.
The BBC
An article by the BBC on how to help.
Contacts to Locate Missing Persons
Universal victims search engine
A search engine to help locate missing people.
BBC email postings
BBC email postings: descriptions of persons missing in Thailand, Sri Lanka,
India, Indonsia and the Maldives.
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