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.

Table of Contents

• About
• 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)