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In The Media's Role in Secondhand Trauma, the author proposes a collaboration between the media, helping professionals, and trauma researchers to stem the tide of trauma. The media, Ross suggests, can use its influence to promote messages of peace over violence and be used as a tool in the restoration and rebuilding of wounded psyches, communities, and nations. Convincing media professionals to apply healing tools to their own lives can create positive cycles that will benefit everyone.

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Since September 11th, disaster recovery planning has ceased to be a luxury for all organizations. Use this white paper from Info-Tech to help you build an ironclad disaster recovery plan. Info-Tech White Papers deliver comprehensive information and advice on selected topics of keen interest to information technology managers. The Info-Tech Research group specializes in creating concise directions that busy technology managers and professionals can put to use right away.

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Devoted to the prevention and treatment of children's mental health problems following disasters of various kinds, considering basic theory and assessment and intervention techniques. Begins a series that will provide mental health professionals with information on traditional and emerging issues relating to the psychological, behavioral, and developmental problems of children. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

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Good look at helping those affected by disasters,
April 7, 2000
Reviewer: A reader from Illinois
This book contained many examples the author experienced while doing disaster mental health intervention. These examples helped tie down the main concepts of the book as well as provide a clear picture of disaster services. This is a great book for anyone who wants to volunteer or provide mental services in disaster situations. It is also good for someone in the mental health field who has not found a specialization. The only drawback to this book were the huge lists. There were so many items in some of the lists that they all ran together. However, I would strongly reccomend this book.

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Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston. Clinical Practice, Volume 24. Practical and theoretical guide for mental health professionals on how to evaluate disaster impact, and organize a clinical response.

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A compilation of research-based essays within a political economy framework concerned with assessing the prediction, control and management of natural disasters in vulnerable Third World countries. Focuses on mitigating suffering and economic and environmental loss by sustainable control, appropriate forecasting and impact reduction measures. Includes first-hand accounts from disaster workers and academic researchers.

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From Book News, Inc. In December 1984, a massive explosion and discharge of poisonous gas from Union Carbide's pesticide factory in Bhopal, India, killed over 2,500 people. Hundreds more have since died and many thousands were injured. Cassels (law, U. of Victoria, B.C.) traces the origins of the Bhopal tragedy and examines the legal aftermath and global implications. Cassels concludes, with the Supreme Court of India, that in a time of exploding technology, we cannot be satisfied entirely with the "uncertain promises of law." Cassels suggests a number of fundamental reforms that must be forged if future Bhopals are to be prevented. Paper edition (unseen), $19.95. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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From Library Journal
A survivor of the London blitz, Wright now produces videos and lectures on earthquake survival. His theme: the quality of survival depends on the quality of preparation. His approach: encourage people to consider where they will be, plan what they will do in particular environments, and store up and/or carry what they will need when the "Big E" hits. His book contains practical information on selecting and storing supplies, and he offers advice on preparation and organization for schools, apartment dwellers, and the like. Wright briefly touches on other natural disasters, such as hurricanes and floods. The author writes in a chatty, homespun style that makes one wish for less verbiage and more practical ideas. Purchase where interest warrants.
- W.T. Johnston, formerly with Coastal Plain Regional Lib., Tifton, Ga. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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From Publishers Weekly
For the past 20 years Erikson, a sociology professor at Yale University, has studied comunities stunned by recent disasters. His first subject, Buffalo Creek, W. Va., which suffered from the break of an earthen dam in 1972, led him to write Everything in Its Path. Among the seven communities examined here are an Indian reserve in Canada whose water supply was contaminated by mercury, a Colorado neighborhood threatened by gasoline seeping from storage tanks, the towns near the Three Mile Island nuclear plant that faced the possibility of radiation contamination. Erikson found a consistent pattern: loss of self-esteem and faith in institutions, and heightened senses of dread and vulnerability. He finds similar responses among the homeless. Describing this kind of trouble as the product of human error, he reviews the decision to deploy the atomic bomb in WW II and addresses the plan to store nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain in Nevada. In the epilogue to these gripping case studies, Erikson advances the illuminating suggestion that communities can experience trauma just as individauls can. Photos. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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From Book News, Inc.
The series, prepared under the auspices and with the support of the Human Relations Area Files at Yale U., is designed to meet the current demand for cross-cultural and international curriculum materials in US colleges and universities. The present volume examines how humans react to environmental disasters, focusing on populations in the developing world where economic and political factors often contribute to changing an extreme climatic event into a disaster that alters lives. Paper edition (unseen), $15.95. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.