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The Terrorist Attack on America
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Links to the American Psychiatric Association's guidelines for When a Disaster Strikes, Helping Children Cope With a National Tragedy and Psychiatric Aspects of Disaster, Trauma |
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Here are two websites that could be useful to parents and therapists for discussing terrorism with children. The link are http://www.ces.purdue.edu and http://www.cphc-sf.org/attack_on_america_book.htm |
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Here is a link to a special issue of the CCCI
Pulse new, this is another "special issue." It begins
with PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS AND RESPONSES, which includes links to
news stories from recent days. WEB RESOURCES FOR RELATIVES AND
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Two web resources that offer helpful materials, including material for dealing with local media: The International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies and The International Critical Incident Stress Foundation |
| For those who don't get Medscape, this is a fairly comprehensive list of resources. http://www.medscape.com/resource/trauma |
| A helpful website from the NYU Child Study Center: www.AboutOurKids.org/crisis.html - has two very useful papers- onefor educators and mental health professionals and the other for parents and children - all devoted to helping kids deal with this. (They are in PDF format). Also, the NYU Department of Psych homepage has lots of useful links: www.med.nyu.edu/Psych/disaster.html |
| Web sites established by the American Psychological Association: Help With Trauma: http://www.apa.org/psychnet/coverage.html, Resources on Coping with Traumatic Events: http://www.apa.org/practice/ptresources.html; Managing Traumatic Stress: http://helping.apa.org/therapy/traumaticstress.html; Coping with the Aftermath of a Disaster: http://helping.apa.org/daily/tassey.html; Talking With Youth About traumatic Events: http://www.apa.org/practice/ptforum.html; Suggested Steps for Reaching Out to Schools: http://www.apa.org/practice/ptsteps.html; Reactions and Guidelines for Children Following Trauma/Disaster: http://www.apa.org/practice/ptguidelines.html; Warning Signs of Trauma-related Stress: http://www.apa.org/practice/ptsd.html |
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The National Center for Children in Poverty has compiled a list of resources about how to talk with children at www.nccp.org |
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Educators for Social Responsibility has developed a free guide called "Talking to Children about Violence and other Sensitive and Complex Issues in the World" www.esrnational.org |
How To Help: From Psychiatrists in New York
Here is an email message that the from Dr. Anthony Ng in New York:
My name is Anthony Ng. I am a psychiatrist with Disaster Psychiatry
Outreach. You may remember when we posted a listing for volunteers a few months ago. We are operating right now in NYC. The local Dept of Mental Health had temporarily designated us as the official psychiatrist response team and I am the director of field operation for this disaster. There is chaos here. The number of volunteer psychiatrists are overwhelming for the need. The city is in chaos so it is very hard to deploy people. Currently we have many people deployed. If people want to help, please contact DPO at (212)659-8733 where we are coordinating the efforts. However, please be patient as the phone systems is still in shambles. You can also contact us at Disasterpsych@aol.com.
As much as people want to help, the mental health aspect of this disaster is going to be months and years. PLEASE understand that the system can only handle so many people at this time. As much as there may be needed elsewhere, we cannot have psychiatrists going off on their own. Therefore, many of you will be very much needed int he coming days as it sinks in to the population and also a need to relieve psychiatrists doing this.
Thank you
Tony
9/14/01
This message was received from Rami Kaminski, MD:
Hello Mental Health Professionals:We are organizing through the NYS/OMH Field Office in NY, volunteers to meet with family members of missing people at the Lexington Armory. The preference is for groups of volunteers (such as a particular agency or hospital) to be responsible for a shift, but individuals are obviously welcome.
- You can call the field office at 212 3301650 and ask to speak to Joe Reilly who is coordinating the effort.
We do have many wonderful people who volunteer but I am afraid that we will need this service for quite some time.RamiNYS/OMH 9/14/01