Research Catalog

Title

FDNY crisis counseling : innovative responses to 9/11 firefighters, families, and communities / Paul Greene ... [et al.].

Publication

Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, 2006.

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Additional Authors

Greene, Paul.

Description

xx, 268 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

• "Shortly after the September 11th attacks, as the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) started their recovery work in the ruins of the World Trade Center, a large-scale mental health response within the FDNY swung into action, initiated by staff in the department's Counseling Services Unit (CSU). FDNY Crisis Counseling: Innovative Responses to 9/11 Firefighters, Families, and Communities tells the story of this ongoing response from the perspective of those who put it into practice. Using narrative, case studies, and other real-world examples, this unique new resource lays out a roadmap for applying innovative approaches to disaster response and the prevention of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. The pioneering efforts of the CSU present a model for all mental health professionals working with organizations, communities, individuals, and families."--Publisher's website.
• "Using narrative, case studies, and other real-world examples, this unique new resource lays out a roadmap for applying innovative approaches to disaster response and the prevention of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. The pioneering efforts of the CSU present a model for all mental health professionals working with organizations, communities, individuals, and families."--Jacket.

Subject

• Fire fighters > New York
• New York (N.Y.). Counseling Service Unit
• Post-traumatic stress disorder > Treatment
• Psychic trauma > Treatment
• Psychological debriefing
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks > psychology
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 > Psychological aspects
• Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic > therapy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-264) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2. Coping with Chaos -- The Counseling Service Unit Pre-9/11 The CSU Response to 9/11 -- Assessing the Community -- Receiving Outside Help CSU Expansion -- Connecting with the Firefighting Community -- Connecting with Families -- Family Liaisons -- Moving Forward -- Defining a Timeline for Your Community -- Chapter 3. Understanding Culture -- Cultural Identity -- Applying Cultural Identity to Intervention -- Firefighting History and Tradition in New York -- Modern Firefighting in New York City -- The FDNY as a Paramilitary Organization -- Everyday Life in the Firehouse -- Rituals and Rank -- Common Bonds -- Family Ties That Bind -- Heroics, Media, and Politics -- The Brotherhood and Its Loss -- Chapter 4. Shaping Services to Meet Emerging Needs -- Assessment and Planning -- How the Nature of the Event Shapes the Response -- Listening and Responding to Emerging Needs Strengthening the CSU Identity -- Establishing Provider Networks --^
• Building a Staff: Both Peer and Professional -- Care for the Caregivers -- Keeping the Machinery Going: Funding and Resource Development -- Thoughts for the Future -- Chapter 5. Providing Help in the Workplace -- The Firehouse Clinician Project The Mindset of FDNY Firefighters -- The Intervention: Placing Clinicians in Firehouses -- The Population: Defining Who Needed Services -- Theoretical Orientation -- Intervention Goal -- Selecting and Training Firehouse Clinicians -- The First Visit to the Firehouse -- Revamping Professional Boundaries -- Preparing to Be a Firehouse Clinician -- Termination Countertransference: The Time to Leave the Firehouse -- Chapter 6. Modifying Psychotherapy for Individuals -- Individual Psychotherapy with Firefighters -- The Parameters of Individual Treatment -- Choosing Individual Psychotherapy -- Implications for Psychotherapy Technique -- Summary -- Chapter 7. Finding Comfort in Groups -- Why Group Intervention? --^
• Therapy Groups versus Support Groups -- Trauma Groups -- Site Interventions -- Office-Based Groups: Middle and Later Phase -- Importance of Homogeneity in Group Formation -- Traumatic Bereavement Groups -- "Single-Session Groups" -- AFinal Word about Groups -- Chapter 8. Providing a Home-Based Therapeutic Program for Widows and Children -- Understanding the Experience for Mothers and Children -- Developing CSU Services for Bereaved Families -- Creating a Preliminary Model for the Family Program -- Preliminary Trauma, Grief, Reconstitution Model -- Implementing the Family Program -- Intervention Goals for Children and Adolescents -- Intervention Goals for Adults -- Therapeutic Approaches -- Lessons Learned -- Chapter 9. Strengthening Connections within the Family at Home -- The Impact of Trauma on Relationships -- Reaching Out to Families -- Developing an Effective Intervention -- The Couples Connection Weekend -- Lessons Learned -- Chapter 10. Assisting Retirees in Transition --^
• When the Losses of 9/11 Were Compounded by the Loss of a Job -- The Retiree Experience -- The Stay Connected Program -- Lessons Learned -- Chapter 11. Conclusion Protracted Time Lines -- Community of Grievers -- Crisis Counseling over the Long Haul -- Public versus Private Mourning -- The Value of Pre-planning -- Posttraumatic Growth.

ISBN

0471714259 (pbk.)

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library