An International Perspective on Disasters and Children's Mental Health

✍ Scribed by Christina W. Hoven, Lawrence V. Amsel, Sam Tyano

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 455
• Series: Integrating Psychiatry and Primary Care
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book provides a broad international perspective on the psychological trauma faced by children and adolescents exposed to major disasters, and on the local public health response to their needs. An outstanding quality of the book is that it draws upon the experience of local researchers, clinicians, and public mental health practitioners who dedicated themselves to these children in the wake of overwhelming events. The chapters address exemplary responses to a wide variety of trauma types, including severe weather, war, industrial catastrophes, earthquakes, and terrorism. Because disasters do not recognize geographic, economic, or political boundaries, the chapters have been selected to reflect the diverse global community’s attempt to respond to vulnerable children in the most challenging times. The book, thus, examines a diverse range of healthcare systems, cultural settings, mental health infrastructure, government policies, and the economic factors that have played an important role in responses to traumatic events. The ultimate goal of this book is to stimulate future international collaborations and interventions that will promote children’s mental health in the face of disaster.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xxxi
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
The Impact of Trauma on the Fetus, the Infant, and the Child (Miri Keren, Sam Tyano)....Pages 3-20
Public Health Responses and Therapeutic Interventions (Joy D. Osofsky, Tonya C. Hansel, Howard J. Osofsky, Anthony H. Speier)....Pages 21-42
Front Matter ....Pages 43-43
Boko Haram Insurgency and Nigeria’s Mental Health Response (Jibril Omuya Abdulmalik, Asmau Mohammed Chubado Dahiru, Mohammed Said Jidda, Musa Abba Wakil, Olayinka Olusola Omigbodun)....Pages 45-61
The Army Public School Massacre in Peshawar, Pakistan (Khalid A. Mufti, Ali Ahsan Mufti, Michaeline Bresnahan)....Pages 63-71
Children’s Mental Health After 9/11 and the Boston Marathon Bombing (Jonathan S. Comer, Alejandra Golik, Julio Martin)....Pages 73-91
Front Matter ....Pages 93-93
Chilean Children 7 Years After the 2010 Earthquake and Tsunami (Marcelo Leiva-Bianchi, Andrea Araneda, Andrés Fresno, Rosario Spencer)....Pages 95-112
Children’s Exposure to China’s Wenchuan Earthquake: Mental Health Sequelae (Ya Zhou, Fang Fan, Yuanyuan Li)....Pages 113-146
Children’s Mental Health Following the Haiti 2010 Earthquake (Judite Blanc, Ingrid van Balkom)....Pages 147-164
Front Matter ....Pages 165-165
Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident (Hisako Watanabe, Shintaro Kikuchi, Kanae Narui, Kimiko Toyoshima, Hiroko Suzuki, Natsuko Tokita et al.)....Pages 167-190
Responses to Children’s Mental Health Needs Following the Chernobyl Disaster (Konstantin Nikolayevich Loganovsky, Tatiana Konstantinovna Loganovskaya)....Pages 191-218
Child and Adolescent Suicide Risk Following the Chernobyl Disaster (Vsevolod A. Rozanov)....Pages 219-230
Front Matter ....Pages 231-231
Psychopathology in Children and Their Caregivers Following America’s Hurricane Katrina (Julianna Finelli, Charles H. Zeanah)....Pages 233-252
Use of Geographic Information Systems in Trauma Research (George J. Musa, William Keating, Brian Brutzman)....Pages 253-269
Front Matter ....Pages 271-271
The Armenian Genocide and Its Intergenerational Effects (Khachatur Gasparyan, John Saroyan)....Pages 273-299
Promoting Mental Health for Children and Their Caregivers Affected by the Syrian Conflict (Aala El-Khani, Rachel Calam)....Pages 301-322
The Intergenerational Aftermath of War Captivity: The Israeli Experience (Jacob Y. Stein, Roy Aloni, Laura Crompton, Gadi Zerach, Zahava Solomon)....Pages 323-340
Front Matter ....Pages 341-341
Children Seeking Asylum: Mental Health and Human Rights (Louise K. Newman)....Pages 343-361
Children and Armed Conflict: A Child Rights-based Approach to Prevention and Mitigation (Jeffrey Goldhagen, Sherry Shenoda, Peter Dixon)....Pages 363-387
Front Matter ....Pages 389-389
Preventing Future Terrorism: Intervening on Youth Radicalization (Alana Siegel, Sophie Brickman, Zoe Goldberg, Ruth Pat-Horenczyk)....Pages 391-418
Mass Disasters and Children’s Mental Health: How General Systems Theory and Behavioral Economics Can Help (Lawrence V. Amsel, Brian Brutzman, Mythili Ananthasayan)....Pages 419-439

✦ Subjects

Medicine & Public Health; Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; Clinical Psychology; Psychology Research