Disaster Mental Health Counseling: Responding to Trauma in a Multicultural Context

by Mark A. Stebnicki PhD, LPC, DCMHS, CRC, CCM, CCMC (Editor)

Overview

This is the first book for mental health professionals working with survivors of mass trauma to focus on the psychosocial and cultural contexts in which these disasters occur. It underscores the importance of understanding these environments in order to provide maximally effective mental health interventions for trauma survivors and their communities. Global in scope, the text addresses the foundations of understanding and responding to the mental health needs of individuals and groups healing from traumas created by a wide range of natural and human-made critical events, including acts of terrorism, armed conflict, genocide, and mass violence by individual perpetrators. Designed for professional training in disaster mental health, and meeting CACREP standards, the text promotes the knowledge and skills needed to work with the psychosocial aspects of individual and group adaptation and adjustment to mass traumatic experience.

Reflecting state-of-the-art knowledge, the book offers detailed guidelines in assessment and brief interventions related to survivors' posttraumatic stress symptoms and complex trauma associated with being at the epicenter of extraordinary stressful and traumatic events. In addition, this book also covers critical issues of self-care for the professional. Illustrated with first-person accounts of disaster survivors and case scenarios, this book emphasizes how counselors and other mental health professionals can foster resilience and wellness in individuals and communities affected by all types of disasters.

KEY FEATURES:

• Considers disaster and mass trauma response from a culturally and globally relevant perspective—the first book of its kind
• Addresses CACREP's clinical standards and content areas related to disaster mental health response
• Covers many types of disasters and categories of survivors
• Includes updated information on PTSD, complex trauma, and self-care
• Addresses cultivating resiliency in individual and group survivors along with social justice issues
• Offers an Instructor's Manual and PowerPoint slide packet for qualified adopters

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826132895
Publisher:	Springer Publishing Company
Publication date:	12/07/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	364
Sales rank:	757,709
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Mark A. Stebnicki, PhD, LPC, DCMHS, CRC, CCM, CCMC is a Professor and Coordinator of the Military and Trauma Counseling Certificate Program he developed in the Department of Addictions and Rehabilitation Services at East Carolina University.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS

Preface

1 Defining the Role and Function of Disaster Response

2 What Is Disaster Mental Health Counseling?

3 The Search for Meaning in Trauma and Disaster

4 The Neuroscience of Stress and Trauma

5 Empathy First Aid and Disaster Mental Health Counseling

6 Cultural Empathy and Disaster Mental Health Counseling

7 Multicultural Perspectives in Disaster Mental Health Counseling

8 Integrating Culture Into Disaster Mental Health Counseling: Foundations of Mind, Body, and Spirit

9 Trauma and Spirituality: Implications for Counselor Educators, Supervisors, and Practitioners

10 Medical Aspects of Disaster and Trauma

Mark A. Stebnicki and Irmo Marini

11 Psychosocial Adjustment Issues in Disaster Mental Health Counseling

12 Career Transition in Disaster Mental Health

13 Interventions in Disaster Mental Health Counseling

14 Immigrants, Refugees, and Asylum Seekers: The Psychosocial Cost of War on Civilians

15 Military and Disaster Mental Health Counseling

16 The Trauma of Terrorism and Disaster Mental Health Counseling

17 The Psychosocial Impact of Environmental and Natural Disasters

Mark A. Stebnicki and Irmo Marini

18 Trauma and Resiliency in Disaster Mental Health Counseling

19 From Empathy Fatigue to Empathy Resiliency

20 The Personal Growth Program to Heal Trauma (PGP-HT)

Index