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List of contributors. <p>Preface (Lopez-Ibor et al).</p> <p>1. What is a Disaster? (Lopez-Ibor).</p> <p>2. Psychological and Psychopathological Consequences of Disasters (Fullerton and Ursano).</p> <p>3. Psychiatric Morbidity following Disasters: Epidemiology, Risk and Protective Factors (McFarlane).</p> <p>4. Reevaluating the Link between Disasters and Psychopathology (Yehuda and Bierer).</p> <p>5. Psychological Interventions for People Exposed to Disasters (Benyakar and Collazo).</p> <p>6. Organization of Mental Health Services for Disaster Victims (Crocq et al).</p> <p>Mental Health Consequences of Disasters: Research Reports.</p> <p>7. The Experience of the Kobe Earthquake (Shinfuku).</p> <p>8. The Experience of the Marmara Earthquake (Gokalp).</p> <p>9. The Experience of the Athens Earthquake (Christodoulou et al)</p> <p>10. The Experience of the Nairobi US Embassy Bombing (Njeng and Nyamai).</p> <p>11. The Experience of the New York September 11 Terroristic Attack (DeLisi et al).</p> <p>12. The Experience of the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster (Havenaar and Bromet).</p> <p>13. The Experience of the Bhopal Disaster (Murthy).</p> <p>14. The Latin American and Caribbean Experience (Caldas de Ameida and Rodriguez).</p> <p>15.  The Israeli Experience (Shalev).</p> <p>16. The Palestinian Experience (El Sarraj and Qouta).</p> <p>17. The Experience of Bosnia-Herzegovina: Psychosocial Consequences of War Atrocities on Children (Husain).</p> <p>18. The Serbian Experience (Lecic-Tosevski and Draganic-Gajic).</p> <p>19. The Croatian Experience (Folnegovic Smalc).</p>

"…will inform mental health care providers and epidemiologists, as well as those that study and plan disaster response worldwide." (<i>E-STREAMS</i>, April 2006) <p>"Highly recommended to all physicians who practice within the realm of psychological medicine…recommended to Health Science libraries as a general reference text…" (<i>Electric Review</i>, November/December 2005)</p> <p>"This timely book will help us maximize what we are summoned to bear when disaster inevitably strikes next." (<i>New England Journal of Medicine</i>, August 25, 2005)</p> <p>"This book offers an excellent source of research in the area…vital for those who prepare prevention and response to local and international crises." (<i>Doody's Health Services</i>)</p>

<p><strong>Mario Maj</strong>, University of Naples, Italy.

Natural and man-made disasters, war and terrorism are having an increasing impact on the mental health of many populations worldwide. <i>Disasters and Mental Health</i> provides a comprehensive overview of: <ul> <li>clinical and epidemiological aspects</li> <li>psychobiological and psychosocial consequences</li> <li>effective interventions</li> <li>service organization aspects</li> </ul> <p>This practical handbook also includes a series of reports on significant experiences made in this field such as:</p> <ul> <li>The Experience of the Kobe Earthquake</li> <li>The Experience of the Nairobi US Embassy Bombing</li> <li>The Experience of the New York September 11 Terrorist Attack</li> <li>Psychosocial Consequences of War Atrocities on Children</li> <li>The Israeli and the Palestinian Experience</li> </ul> <p><i>Disasters and Mental Health</i> will be of interest to psychiatrists and psychologists, mental health care professionals dealing with disaster victims, researchers and policy makers.</p>

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