Disaster Psychiatry - Readiness, Evaluation, and Treatment

"Disaster Psychiatry: Readiness, Evaluation, and Treatment synthesizes information gathered from a variety of sources to explain, using a biopsychosocial model, what a disaster is, how disasters relate to mental health, and how psychiatrists and other mental health professionals can effectively intervene to reduce suffering in such circumstances"-- Provided by publisher.

Summary

Spurred in part by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, which turned nearly all mental health professionals into de facto disaster mental health professionals—this second edition of Disaster Psychiatry remains a clinically oriented, evidence-based, and practical guide to mental health evaluation and interventions against the backdrop of adversity.

Product details

• Authors: Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry
• Assisted by: Director Trauma Service Grant H Brenner (Editor), Grant H Brenner (Editor), Grant H. Brenner (Editor), Grant H. (Director Brenner (Editor), Craig L Katz (Editor), Craig L. Katz (Editor), Craig L. (Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Education ) Katz (Editor), Frederick J Stoddard (Editor), Frederick J. Stoddard (Editor)
• Publisher: Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry,U.S.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.01.2025
• EAN: 9780873182508
• ISBN: 978-0-87318-250-8
• No. of pages: 414
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 232 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 564 g
• Illustrations: 1 Charts; 2 Illustrations, color; 34 Line drawings, black and white; 64 Tables, unspecified
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine