Includes bibliographical references and index.

Series editor foreword / Charles R. Figley -- Introduction / Gertie Quitangon and Mark R. Evces -- What is vicarious trauma? / Mark R. Evces -- What factors can predict susceptibility to vicarious trauma? / Gertie Quitangon, Kate St. Cyr, and Charles Nelson -- What are the barriers to addressing vicarious trauma? / Jane Hammerslough -- Personal reflections / Kevin O'Brien -- What do we need to know about disasters? / Gertie Quitangon -- How different is psychological first aid from other psychotherapeutic modalities? / Patricia J. Watson -- How do we understand disaster-related vicarious trauma, secondary traumatic stress, and compassion fatigue? / April Naturale -- Personal reflections / Yeshwant Chitalkar -- What is vicarious resilience? / Charles Nelson and Kate St. Cyr -- Personal reflections / Jeffrey B. Freedman -- What factors are associated with vicarious resilience? / Charles Nelson and Kate St. Cyr -- What are the positive effects of working with victims of trauma? / Charles Nelson and Kate St. Cyr -- How do we measure vicarious trauma? / Kate St. Cyr -- How can we rescue ourselves from vicarious trauma? / Danielle Kaplan -- Personal reflections / Spencer Eth -- What can organizations do to address vicarious trauma in disasters? / Gertie Quitangon and Mark R. Evces -- Personal reflections / Craig L. Katz -- What resources are available on vicarious trauma? / Mudassar Iqbal, Tamar Lavy, and Mark R. Evces -- How do we navigate relevant information on disasters? / Helen Ryu, Tamar Lavy, and Mark R. Evces.

"Vicarious Trauma and Disaster Mental Health focuses on the clinician and the impact of working with disaster survivors. Floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, mass shootings, terrorism and other large-scale catastrophic events have increased in the last decade and disaster resilience has become a national imperative. This book explores vicarious traumatization in mental health providers who respond to massive disasters by choice or by circumstance. What happens when clinicians share the trauma and vulnerability from the toll taken by a disaster with the victims they care for? How can clinicians increase resilience from disaster exposure and provide mental health services effectively? Vicarious Trauma and Disaster Mental Health offers insight and analysis of the research and theory behind vicarious trauma and compares and contrasts with other work-impact concepts such as burnout, compassion fatigue and secondary traumatic stress. It proposes practical evidence-informed personal strategies and organizational approaches that address five cognitive schemas (safety, esteem, trust, control and intimacy) disrupted in vicarious trauma. With an emphasis on the psychological health and safety of mental health providers in the post-disaster workplace, this book represents a shift in perspective and provides a framework for the promotion of worker resilience in the standard of practice in disaster management"-- Provided by publisher.

"Vicarious Trauma and Disaster Mental Health focuses on the clinician and the impact of working with trauma victims in the aftermath of massive disasters"-- Provided by publisher.