Coping with Life: 9/11, mental health and infamy

Saturday, September 11, 2010

9/11, mental health and infamy

Nearly 3,000 people died on Sept. 11, 2001. But the mind was one of the most significant, and lingering casualties.

On the ninth anniversary of the attacks, it's important to remember that there are resources for people still suffering.

From Columbia University and it's book, "9/11: Mental Health in the Wake of Terrorist Attacks:"

Does terrorism have a unique and significant emotional and behavioral impact among adults and children? In what way does the impact of terrorism exceed the individual level and affect communities and specific professional groups as well as test different leadership styles?

How were professional communities of mental health clinicians, policy makers and researchers mobilized to respond to the emerging needs post-disaster? What are the lessons learned from the work conducted after 9/11 and the implications for future disaster mental health work and preparedness efforts?

Yuval Neria and his team are uniquely placed to answer these questions having been involved in modifying ongoing trials and setting up new ones in New York to address these issues straight after the attacks.

No psychiatrist, mental health professional or policy maker should be without this book.

2 comments:

kevin blumer said...: it must be hard for people after 911 with so many people dieing and leaving behind so many people it hard to imagine we over here in the uk we have not had anythink like on that scale; November 28, 2010 at 6:21 PM
Anonymous said...: NYS spent $137 million on 1,500,000 individuals allegedly suffering mental illness as a result of watching the trade center collapse. It was a waste of money and left people with serious mental illness untreated. I wrote on it here http://www.opednews.com/articles/9-11-Another-excuse-to-ig-by-DJ-Jaffe-110910-895.html
another author wrote a related piece in Psychology Today http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-skeptical-sleuth/201109/after-911-the-mental-health-crisis-never-came
and I write on mental illness in Huffington Post
http://huffingtonpost.com/dj-jaffe; September 10, 2011 at 5:52 PM

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