The mental health consequences of exposure to a natural or technological disaster have not
been fully addressed by those in the field of disaster preparedness or service delivery …

Over the course of their lifetime, a substantial segment of the global population will
unfortunately be exposed to a disaster. Disasters have sudden onset, typically affect large …

Disasters affect many lives and reshape environments for years to come. This chapter aims
to provide closing remarks about the evidence provided in this book, on what is known and …

The majority of people exposed to trauma and disasters do well. However, some individuals
experience distress, others have behavioral changes and some develop psychiatric illness …

We present in this review the current state of disaster mental health research. In particular,
we provide an overview of research on the presentation, burden, correlates, and treatment of …

Unfortunately, disasters are quite common occurrences in the United States and elsewhere.
Because of the frequency of these events, it is important to understand their long-term …

Disaster myths (Wenger, Dykes, Sebok, & Neff, 1975) refer to such com monly held but
overgeneralized beliefs as widespread panic among disaster victims, persistent states of …

Superstorm Sandy, which affected millions of people in 2012, was a disaster in structural,
financial, medical, and emotional terms. Many survivors experienced post-storm health …

This paper focuses on characteristics of natural and manmade disasters and linkages
between those characteristics and psychosocial effects on disaster victims. Available …

3 Introduction 3.6 percent in other metropolitan areas, and 4.0 percent in the rest of the
United States (Schlenger et al., 2002). Approximately 35 percent of those directly exposed to …