Focuses on how a child's health care provider may better prepare, assess, and treat children and their families in the event of a disaster. Aids physicians in assuming the role of a community leader when disaster strikes. Covers: characteristics and impact of disasters, specific problems and recommendations, reactions of children and adolescents to a disaster, and issues for community involvement. Extensive bibliography. Appendices: potential resources in a disaster environment and Pediatric Emotional Distress Scale (PEDS). Illustrated.

NOTE: NO FURTHER DISCOUNT FOR THIS PRINT PRODUCT--OVERSTOCK SALE -- Significantly reduced list price while supplies last Author: Anthony H. Speier. Edited by: Dina Nordboe. This manual provides information and guidance to individuals concerned with the mental health needs of children who experience major disasters. Disaster response workers, who are providing crisis counseling and emotional recovery assistance, need to be sensitive to the emotional vulnerability of children. The materials discussed herein will give crisis response workers essential information about the impact of disasters on individuals, how the trauma associated with such events impacts children, the unique world of children, and the diversity of family structures in which children reside. Related products: Children & Adolescence resources collection can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/health-benefits/childhood-adolescence

NOTE: NO FURTHER DISCOUNT FOR THIS PRINT PRODUCT--OVERSTOCK SALE -- Significantly reduced list price while supplies last Author: Anthony H. Speier. Edited by: Dina Nordboe. This manual provides information and guidance to individuals concerned with the mental health needs of children who experience major disasters. Disaster response workers, who are providing crisis counseling and emotional recovery assistance, need to be sensitive to the emotional vulnerability of children. The materials discussed herein will give crisis response workers essential information about the impact of disasters on individuals, how the trauma associated with such events impacts children, the unique world of children, and the diversity of family structures in which children reside. Related products: Children & Adolescence resources collection can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/health-benefits/childhood-adolescence

This manual is a second edition and is intended to reaffirm and extend the concepts expressed in the first edition written by Norman L. Farberow, Ph.D., and Norma S. Gordon, Ph.D., and published in 1981 under the title Manual for Child Health Workers in Disasters. Since 1981, the nation has experienced many major natural disasters and several devastating human-caused disasters. In all cases, these events deeply affected children. The collective experience of individuals involved in disaster work over two decades has repeatedly demonstrated the special vulnerability of children to the impact of traumatic events and the importance of providing crisis counseling and recovery assistance within the context of a child's special world. Included in this original volume are several substantive additions: an extensive review of professional literature, materials developed through various Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) funded Crisis Counseling Program grants and contracts, and personal communications with numerous crisis counseling and outreach workers.