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Care of Children Exposed to the Traumatic Effects of Disaster addresses the effects of disaster on children and their families, and explores the various resources that mental health practitioners and others who routinely interact with children, such as teachers, first responders, health care professionals, child care providers, child welfare professionals, and faith-based community members, can use to help them in their hour of need. The three co-authors have had extensive, and intensive, experience working with disaster victims and preparing both professionals and laypeople to intervene effectively in extreme events. Those on the front lines will find the book's practical and insightful observations, techniques, and strategies indispensible. Specifically, the book - Explains not only how to provide basic support services and brief interventions but how to recognize children in distress, to actively support positive coping skills, to monitor children's well-being in the aftermath of disaster and to identify those who need more intensive evaluation and intervention.- Encompasses a broad range of disasters, from the "natural" (such as earthquakes, tsunamis, tornadoes, and hurricanes) to the human generated (such as wars, civil strife, ethnic conflict, and acts of terrorism).- Provides a timeline of psychological responses to disaster, with its impact phase and cascade of secondary adversities in the aftermath of disaster, which establishes helpful benchmarks to those providing support.- Includes numerous tables and figures that convey complex information in an intuitive, easy-to-understand way. Care of Children Exposed to the Traumatic Effects of Disaster emphasizes the critical importance of effective therapeutic intervention -- which restores function, enhances recovery, and creates a safe and secure environment -- and explains how to mobilize family and social supports to achieve that goal.

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Book category Books in English Medicine Clinical & internal medicine Paediatric medicine

• Full title: Care of Children Exposed to the Traumatic Effects of Disaster
• Author: Jon A. (University of Miami) Shaw, Zelde (Center for Disaster Epidemiology and Emergency Preparedness) Espinel, James M. (DEEP Center - 10th Floor) Shultz
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 243
• EAN: 9781585624263
• ISBN: 1585624268
• ID: 04471200
• Publisher: American Psychiatric Association Publishing
• Weight: 404 g
• Dimensions: 227 × 151 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 08. April 2012

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