Disasters and mental health

List of Contributors vii Preface xi Chapter 1 What is a Disaster? 1 Juan Jose´ Lo´pez-Ibor Chapter 2 Psychological and Psychopathological Consequences of Disasters 13 Carol S. Fullerton and Robert J. Ursano Chapter 3 Psychiatric Morbidity Following Disasters: Epidemiology, Risk and Protective Factors 37 Alexander C. McFarlane Chapter 4 Re-evaluating the Link between Disasters and Psychopathology 65 Rachel Yehuda and Linda M. Bierer Chapter 5 Psychological Interventions for People Exposed to Disasters 81 Mordechai (Moty) Benyakar and Carlos R. Collazo Chapter 6 Organization of Mental Health Services for Disaster Victims 99 Louis Crocq, Marc-Antoine Crocq, Alain Chiapello and Carole Damiani Mental Health Consequences of Disasters: Experiences in Various Regions of the World Chapter 7 The Experience of the Kobe Earthquake 127 Naotaka Shinfuku Chapter 8 The Experience of the Marmara Earthquake 137 Peykan G. Go¨kalp ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Chapter 9 The Experience of the Athens Earthquake 145 George N. Christodoulou, Thomas J. Paparrigopoulos and Constantin R. Soldatos Chapter 10 The Experience of the Nairobi US Embassy Bombing 153 Frank Njenga and Caroline Nyamai Chapter 11 The New York Experience: Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001 167 Lynn E. DeLisi Chapter 12 The Experience of the Chornobyl Nuclear Disaster 179 Johan M. Havenaar and Evelyn J. Bromet Chapter 13 The Experience of the Bhopal Disaster 193 R. Srinivasa Murthy Chapter 14 The Latin American and Caribbean Experience 201 Jose´ Miguel Caldas de Almeida and Jorge Rodrı´guez Chapter 15 The Israeli Experience 217 Arieh Y. Shalev Chapter 16 The Palestinian Experience 229 Eyad El Sarraj and Samir Qouta Chapter 17 The Experience of Bosnia-Herzegovina: Psychosocial Consequences of War Atrocities on Children 239 Syed Arshad Husain Chapter 18 The Serbian Experience 247 Dusica Lecic-Tosevski and Saveta Draganic-Gajic Chapter 19 The Croatian Experience 257 Vera Folnegovic´ S˘malc Appendix – Statement by the World Psychiatric Association on Mental Health Implications of Disasters 263 Index 265