Disaster Psychiatry

A specialized branch of mental health care which provides psychiatric services to disaster victims and rescue workers
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The focus of the consultation was integrating disaster psychiatry concepts into existing medical education programs supporting traditional didactics with cooperative learning group exercises and simulation.
Global mental health: optimizing uniformed services roles
NEW YORK -- After the earthquake in Nepal earlier this year, Disaster Psychiatry Outreach sent in volunteers who found preexisting issues that made their mental health response challenging at best, Dr.
Disaster psychiatry--Nepal, Ebola, and beyond
Paper pre- sented at the Annual Meeting of Disaster Psychiatry Outreach, Miami.
Disaster Experience of Turkey: An Overview from a Psychological Perspective
As the storm's 2-year anniversary approaches (Box, page 70), (2,3) we share our experiences to help you prepare for disasters in your community and to contribute to the limited data on ethics in disaster psychiatry.
Disaster ethics: what are the ground rules? 3 cases can help you make appropriate decisions when priorities suddenly change
Information on disaster psychiatry for primary care physicians and mental health providers;
New web guide links to multiple resources for disaster mental health
The fallout from Hurricane Katrina will be unique in that the mental health challenges facing survivors will be impossible to predict, according to several disaster psychiatry experts.
Katrina survivors swept into uncharted emotions
Case studies, invaluable observations, and highly accessible narrative styles make Disaster Psychiatry indispensible to academic libraries and personal psychiatric reference shelves.
Disaster Psychiatry
RP Smith, MD, CL Katz, MD, A Holmes, Disaster Psychiatry Outreach; R Herbert, MD, S Levin, MD, J Moline, MD, P Landsbergis, PhD, L Stevenson, MPH, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York.
Mental health status of World Trade Center rescue and recovery workers and volunteers--New York City, July 2002-August 2004
He also is interested in mind-body, body-mind interactions; and disaster psychiatry.
Dr. Lorenzo Norris joins Editorial Advisory Board
She trained at Harvard, George Washington, Walter Reed, and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, and has completed fellowships in forensic and preventive and disaster psychiatry.
Welcome to Col. (Ret.) Elspeth Cameron Ritchie, M.D., MPH
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