Table of Contents

Contents

• Part I: Human responses to stress: normal and abnormal
  • On the origins of post-traumatic stress disorder. A. Beveridge
  • Normal and abnormal responses to stress: a developmental approach. C. Murray Parkes
  • Classification. G. Turnbull
  • The interaction of trauma and grief. B. Raphael
  • Memory and trauma. D. Siegel
  • Theoretical models of post-traumatic stress disorder
    • Physiological and biological mechanisms. R. McIvor
    • Psychoanalytical models. C. Van Velsen
    • Cognitive-behavioural models of PTSD. D. Lee & S. Turner
• Part II. Disasters, war, civil conflict, dislocation and interpersonal violence
  • A typology of disasters. C. Murray Parkes
  • Community Disasters
    • The Jupiter disaster. W. Yule
    • The Herald of Free Enterprise disaster. W. Yule, R. Williams & S. Joseph
    • Help-seeking by community residents following the Lockerbie air disaster. M. Mitchell
    • The Marchioness riverboat disaster. L. Goldsmith & J. Haddington
    • The Kegworth air disaster. M. Gibson
    • The King’s Cross fire: second phase intervention. R. Rosser
    • The Hungerford massacre. E. Capewell
    • The Piper Alpha oil platform disaster. D. Alexander
    • Psychological consequences of road traffic accidents. M. Newman
  • The effect of conflict on combatants. M. Deahl
  • The effect of conflict on civilian populations
    • The impact of war and atrocity on civilian populations. D. Summerfield.
    • Civil violence. G. Loughrey
    • Children and conflict. A. Nikapota
    • Concepts, causes and magnitude of population displacement. W. Parry-Jones
  • Psychological responses to interpersonal violence
    • Adults. G. Mezey
    • Children. T. Kaplan
  • Post-traumatic stress disorder in the elderly. I. Hyman
  • Torture. S. Turner & R. McIvor

• Part III. Diagnosis, intervention and treatment
  
  • Diagnosis and treatment
    • Diagnosis. M. Newman & D. Lee
    • Interventions and treatments. W. Parry-Jones
  • Debriefing and crisis intervention. W. Busuttil & A. Busuttil Bereavement counselling. B. Young & D. Black Treatment of adults
    • Behavioural and cognitive approaches. D. Richards & K. Lovell
    • Psychodynamic psychotherapy. C. Van Velsen
    • Eye movement desensitisation. M. Newman
  • Children and adolescents
    • Treatment of children and families. D. Black
    • Psychodynamic psychotherapy. R. Emanuel & A. Mendelsohn
  • Psychopharmacology. M. Newman
  • Service provision
    • The role of the police. T. Dickie
    • Social work in disasters. M. Gibson
    • The school in disasters. W. Yule & A. Gold
    • The role of volunteers. D. Black
    • The role of employers. D. Richards
  • Effects of disasters on helpers. R. Rosser

• Part IV. Legal aspects: victims as witnesses and claimants
  
  • Civil law and psychiatric injury. M. Napier & K. Wheat
  • Post-traumatic stress reactions and the criminal law. G. Adshead & G. Mezey
  • Psychiatric assessment of stress disorders for legal purposes. N. Eastman
  • Ethical issues in disaster and other extreme situations. N. Richman
  • Organising psychosocial responses to disasters. D. Black & J. Harris-Hendriks
  • Overview and comment J. Harris-Hendriks, M. Newman, D. Black & G. Mezey