Integrating Emergency Management and Disaster Behavioral Health One Picture through Two Lenses

Brian Flynn , Ronald Sherman 지음

elsevier 2017년 02월 01일 출간

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Integrating Emergency Management and Disaster Behavioral Health identifies the most critical areas of integration between the profession of emergency management and the specialty of disaster behavioral health, providing perspectives from both of these critical areas, and also including very practical advice and examples on how to address key topics. Each chapter features primary text written by a subject matter expert from a related field that is accompanied by a comment by another profession that is then illustrated with a case study of, or a suggested method for, collaboration.Addresses the current state of the collaboration between the emergency management and disaster behavioral health communities as presented from pioneers in their respective fieldsFocuses on practical examples of what works and what doesn??tStresses both legal and ethical considerations and the public-private partnerships that are important for leadership in disaster situationsCovers Emergency Operations Centers (EOCs) and risk communication

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Section I: The History and Context of Integrating Emergency Management and Disaster Behavioral Health 1. Where Emergency Management and Disaster Behavioral Health Meet: Through the EM Lens 2. Where EM and BH Meet:? Through the BH Lens 3. Why Is Integrating DBH Essential to EM? Challenges and Opportunities 4. Why Is Integrating EM Essential to DBH? Challenges and Opportunities Section II: Key Considerations in Accomplishing Integration 5. Integration in Disasters of Different Types, Severity, and Location 6. Not All Disasters Are the Same:? Understanding the Similarities and Differences 7. What Can DBH Actually Do To Make Emergency Managers Jobs Easier? 8. Expanding the Tent: How Training and Education Partnerships with Other Professions Can Enhance Both EM and BH Discussion Section III: Special Opportunities and Challenges in Optimizing the Benefits of Integration 9. Linking with Private Sector Business and Industry 10. Integration in the Emergency Operations Center (EOC)/Command Center 11. Risk and Crisis Communications 12. How to Navigate External Factors: Legal, Ethical and Political Issues 13. Sustaining the Integration: The Way Forward 14. Conclusion and Summary

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"Behavioral health must be recognized as an essential component of emergency response. Everyone touched by disaster, whether as a survivor or rescuer, is affected mentally and emotionally by the experience, and the psychological effects can linger. Integrating Emergency Management and Disaster Behavioral Health is the guide both emergency management and behavioral health professionals need as a foundation for of any sound disaster preparedness, response, and recovery strategy." - Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter, Co-Founder, the Carter Center

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저자(글) Brian Flynn

저자(글) Ronald Sherman