Juan José López-Ibor & George Christodoulou 
Disasters and Mental Health 

This title provides a comprehensive overview of clinical, epidemiological, psychobiological, psychosocial and service organization aspects of disaster psychiatry.

It takes a practical approach and includes a series of reports on significant experiences made in this field in various regions of the world.

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Table of Content

List of contributors.

Preface (Lopez-Ibor et al).

1. What is a Disaster? (Lopez-Ibor).

2. Psychological and Psychopathological Consequences of
Disasters (Fullerton and Ursano).

3. Psychiatric Morbidity following Disasters: Epidemiology, Risk
and Protective Factors (Mc Farlane).

4. Reevaluating the Link between Disasters and Psychopathology
(Yehuda and Bierer).

5. Psychological Interventions for People Exposed to Disasters
(Benyakar and Collazo).

6. Organization of Mental Health Services for Disaster Victims
(Crocq et al).

Mental Health Consequences of Disasters: Research Reports.

7. The Experience of the Kobe Earthquake (Shinfuku).

8. The Experience of the Marmara Earthquake (Gokalp).

9. The Experience of the Athens Earthquake (Christodoulou et
al)

10. The Experience of the Nairobi US Embassy Bombing (Njeng and
Nyamai).

11. The Experience of the New York September 11 Terroristic
Attack (De Lisi et al).

12. The Experience of the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster (Havenaar
and Bromet).

13. The Experience of the Bhopal Disaster (Murthy).

14. The Latin American and Caribbean Experience (Caldas de
Ameida and Rodriguez).

15. The Israeli Experience (Shalev).

16. The Palestinian Experience (El Sarraj and Qouta).

17. The Experience of Bosnia-Herzegovina: Psychosocial
Consequences of War Atrocities on Children (Husain).

18. The Serbian Experience (Lecic-Tosevski and
Draganic-Gajic).

19. The Croatian Experience (Folnegovic Smalc).

About the author

Mario Maj, University of Naples, Italy.