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Title

The trauma of terrorism : sharing knowledge and shared care, an international handbook / Yael Danieli, Danny Brom, Joe Sills, editors.

Publication

Binghamton, N.Y. : Haworth Maltreatment & Trauma Press, c2005.

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Additional Authors

• Brom, D.
• Danieli, Yael.
• Sills, Joe.

Description

lxvii, 858 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Uniform Title

Journal of aggression, maltreatment & trauma.

Alternative Title

Sharing knowledge and shared care, an international handbook

Subject

• Stress Disorders, Traumatic > psychology
• Terrorism > Psychological aspects
• Terrorism > psychology
• Victims of terrorism > Psychology

Note

• "The Trauma of Terrorism: An International Handbook of Shared Knowledge and Shared Care has been co-published simultaneously as Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma, Volume 9, Numbers 1/2, 3/4 2004 and Volume 10, Numbers 1/2, 3/4 2005."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• FOREWORD. Terrorism: the United Nations and the search for shared solutions -- INTRODUCTION. The trauma of terrorism: contextual considerations -- SECTION 1. THE ORIGINS OF TERRORISM IN MODERN SOCIETY. The origins and nature of terrorism: foundations and issues -- Terrorism as strategy of psychological warfare -- Tales from the underground -- Aum Shinrikyo: the threshold crossed -- Voice: Murdered twin Buddhas and annihilated twin towers: traumatized civilization -- Tactical and strategic terrorism -- Voice: Do they kill for their mothers? -- Voice: Palestinian voices -- Voice: Remembrance Day/Independence Day -- Voice: Terrorism poem -- SECTION 2. THE PSYCHOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF TERRORISM. Adults in the United States, Voice: Grounded on Sept. 11 -- Psychological impact of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks: summary of empirical findings in adults -- Television watching and mental health in the general population of New York City after September 11 --^
• Voice: Too close to ever forget -- Exploring the myths of coping with a national trauma: a longitudinal study of responses to the September 11th terrorist attacks -- Somatization and terrorism -- FINDINGS FROM AROUND THE WORLD. Short- and long-term effects of terrorist attacks in Spain -- Voice: Spain: the ETA enigma -- Northern Ireland: the psychological impact of "the troubles" -- Voice: Brave little man -- Voice: "So what is it like now that your country is run by a terrorist?" -- The long-term effects of terrorism in France -- Psychological effects of terrorist attacks in Algeria -- Voice: Nadia, a victim/survivor of a terrorist massacre of her family in Algeria -- Short- and long-term effects on the victims of terror in Sri Lanka -- Voice: Sri Lanka: the destruction of south Asia's most developed society -- Observations on the impact on Kenyans of the August 7, 1998 bombing of the United States Embassy in Nairobi --^
• Voice: We are asked to do anything and everything except be victims -- Terror and trauma in Bali: Australia's mental health disaster response -- Voice: Memories of Bali / Alan Atkinson -- Voice: A baptism of fire in Bali -- International findings on the impact of terrorism -- Traumatic loss, complicated grief, and terrorism -- Voice: Theo was on Pan Am 103 -- Voice: When you are alone, it is different -- The psychological burden of bioterrorism -- CHILDREN. Psychological impact of terrorism on children and families in the United States -- Voice: I don't want to go to any more funerals of eight year olds -- The immediate psychological consequences of terror attacks in children -- Post-traumatic distress in Israeli adolescents exposed to ongoing terrorism: selected findings from school-based screenings in Jerusalem and nearby settlements -- Voice: Koby's death -- In the shadow of terror: changes in world assumptions in Israeli youth --^
• SECTION 3. THE IMPACT OF TERRORISM ON INDIVIDUALS, GROUPS AND SOCIETY. Terrorism's toll on civil liberties -- The theater of terror: the psychology of terrorism and the mass media -- Guide: Media guidelines: from the "trauma vortex" to the "healing vortex" -- Voice: Wrong place at the wrong time -- Cultural issues in terrorism and in response to terrorism -- Some of the effects of terrorism on refugees -- Voice: The effects of terror on Ethiopian Israelis: what I have left -- SECTION 4. PSYCHOLOGICAL FIRST AID, ACUTE AND LONG-TERM TREATMENT FOLLOWING TERRORIST ATTACKS. Mental health interventions in a general hospital following terrorist attacks: the Israeli experience -- Voice: When news comes close -- Treating survivors of terrorism while adversity continues -- The treatment of children impacted by the World Trade Center attack -- Terror, trauma, and bereavement: implications for theory and therapy -- Voice: Elizabeth Neuffer: in memoriam -- Voice: In memoriam: Daniel Pearl --^
• SECTION 5. SCHOOL- AND COMMUNITY-BASED INTERVENTIONS IN THE FACE OF TERRORIST ATTACKS. Building resilience: a school-based intervention for children exposed to ongoing trauma and stress -- Community-based interventions in New York City after 9/11: a provider's perspective -- An ecological community-based approach for dealing with traumatic stress: a case of terror attack on a Kibbutz -- SECTION 6. A MULTICOMPONENT MODEL OF PREPARING PROVIDERS IN COMMUNITIES AFFECTED BY TERRORISM. Toward a public mental health approach for survivors of terrorism -- The primary care health system as a core resource in response to terrorism -- Identification and follow-up by primary care doctors of children with PTSD after terrorist attacks -- Religious care in coping with terrorism -- Responding to terrorism in the USA: firefighters share experiences in their own words -- Guide: Caring for public servants -- Coping with the aftermath of terror-resilience of ZAKA body handlers --^
• Voice: Ten years later? -- Training and mobilizing volunteers -- Volunteers in disaster reponse: the American Red Cross -- Training therapists to treat the psychological consequences of terrorism: disseminating psychotherapy research and researching psychotherapy dissemination -- Provider perspectives on disaster mental health services in Oklahoma City -- Guide: Some principles of self care -- SECTION 7. INDIVIDUAL AND COMMUNITY PREPAREDNESS: NEW METHODS OF MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE 21ST CENTURY. Terrorism: the community perspective -- Community mental health in emergencies and mass disasters: the Tel-Aviv model -- Challenges of urban mental health disaster planning -- Integrating behavioral aspects into community preparedness and response systems -- Finding the gift in the horror: toward developing a national psychosocial security policy -- The need for continuum of trauma services: who feeds the birds? -- Voice: Right after the bomb went off --^
• Mental health services preparing for the psychological consequences of terrorism -- Mental health response to terrorism in the United States: an adolescent field in an adolescent nation -- Guide: Building bi-national collaboration in the face of terrorism -- Voice: Assault on the United Nations: Baghdad, 19 August 2003 -- CONCLUSION. Sharing knowledge and shared care -- Epilogue.

ISBN

• 0789027720 (hard cover : alk. paper)
• 0789027739 (soft cover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2004023989

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library