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  Effective, timely response to a terrorism incident requires just-in-time, accurate information. The Hazard Response Technology Reference Library provides an electronic library for the Incident Response Management community, researchers, and the general public. Planners, educators, and responders will find links to a broad range of information on planning , prevention, response, and recovery. Sources include government, education, military and non-profit service sites.

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Major Categories for Online Resource Center
Agro-Terrorism Search & Rescue
Agro-Terrorism: First Responders Schools & Disaster Management
Agro-Terrorism: Course Materials Terms & Definitions
Cross-Cultural Mourning Practices Terrorism: Bioterrorism
Family Assistance Terrorism: Bio & Chem Topics
Fire-Hazmat-Disaster Terrorism: Chemical
GIS - Geographic Information System Terrorism: General
Law Enforcement Terrorism: Medical Treatment/Hazmat
Lessons Learned Terrorism: Military Role CBIRF
Media Communications Terrorism: Mock Terrorist Exercises
Medical Terrorism: Protecting Emerg Responders
Medical - Disabled/Aging Terrorism: Radiology
Mental Health Terrorism: Water
Morgue Operations Transportation
Plans & Response Guides Tsunamis
Religious Response Volunteer & Donations Management


MENTAL HEALTH

See also MEDIA-COMMUNICATIONS section.

[The] “10 Commandments” of Responding to Mass Terrorist Attacks
http://www.icisf.org/articles/Acrobat%20Documents/TerrorismIncident/terror1.pdf

50,000 Disaster Victims Speak-Empirical Literature 1981-2001
http://obssr.od.nih.gov/Activities/911/disaster-impact.pdf

After 9-11 – A Chaplain’s Journey with EMDR
http://www.ldrny.org/TOPNEWS/topnews07-26-04.html

After Fall – 9-11 Effect on EMS Personnel
http://www.icisf.org/articles/jems0902.pdf

After the Attack-Psychological Consequences of Terrorism
http://bcsia.ksg.harvard.edu/BCSKIA_content/documents/After_the_Attack.pdf

[The] American Red Cross in Aviation Disasters
http://www.ispub.com/ostia/index.php?xmlFilePath=journals/ijrdm/vol1n2/arc.xml

[The] Anniversary Dilemma
http://www.icisf.org/articles/Acrobat%20Documents/9_11_Anniv_msg.pdf

Anniversary Self-Aid & Buddy Care for Those Who Helped
http://www.icisf.org/articles/Acrobat%20Documents/annivselfaid.pdf

APNS-EMO Memorandum of Understanding for Post-Disaster Psychological Services
http://www.apns.ca/trauma_apnsmemo.html

Ashes
http://godsfriends.org/Vol13/No3/Ashes.html

Assessing post-traumatic stress disorder in South African adolescents – using the child and adolescent trauma survey CATS as a screening tool.
http://www.annals-general-psychiatry.com/content/4/1/2

A week at the morgue – a personal odyssey
http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/178_04_170203/kas10638_fm.html

Bali Bombing – Australian Government – Bali Disaster Information – Commemorations
http://www.baliassist.gov.au/commemorations

Bali Bombing – Australian Government – Bali Disaster Information – News Update
http:// www.baliassist.gov.au/news

Bali Bombing – Ground Zero Kuta
http://www.ericellis.com/bulletinbaliterror.htm

Bali Bombing – Interview with Clair Marsh
http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2003/20030915_after_bali/int_cmarsh.htm

Bali Bombing – Interview with David Marsh
http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2003/20030915_after_bali/int_marsh.htm

Bali Bombing – Interview with Haji Bambang Priyanto
http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2003/20030915_after_bali/int_priyanto.htm

Bali Bombing – Interview with John and Tracey Golotta
http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2003/20030915_after_bali/int_golotta.htm

Bali Bombing – Interview with Richard Joyes
http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2003/20030915_after_bali/int_joyes.htm
Bali Bombing – Interview with Stewart Strong
http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2003/20030915_after_bali/int_strong.htm

Bibliography Managing Stress in Humanitarian Health Care & Human Rights Workers
http://www.mhwwb.org/Literature%20Review%20(rev.%2011-19-02).htm

Breaking Bad News of Death
http://www.dartcenter.org/articles/books/breaking_bad_news_01.html

Casualty and Death Notification
http://www.ncptsd.org/facts/disasters/fs_death_notification.html

Children of Disaster A Letter to the Youngest Victim
http://www.dartcenter.org/articles/headlines/2001/2001_10_02.html

Casualty and Death Notification
http://www.ncptsd.org/facts/disasters/fs_death_notification.html

[The] Community Crisis Response Team Training Manual
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc/publications/infores/crt/

Compassion Fatigue – An Introduction
http://www.greencross.org/_Research/CompassionFatigue.asp

Coordination of Mental Health and Community Agencies in Disaster Response
http://www.icisf.org/Acrobat%20Documents/TerrorismIncident/AgcyCoord.pdf

Coping with Disasters-Guidebook to Psychological Intervention
http://www.mhwwb.org/CopingWithDisaster.pdf

Counselors combat disaster for themselves, students
http://www.rochester.edu/warner/newsevents/warnereducator/spring02/counselors.html

Critical Incident Stress Information Pamphlet
http://www.icisf.org/Acrobat%20Documents/CISM%20info%20pamphlet.PDF

Crisis Intervention & Critical Incident Stress Management-A defense of the field
http://www.icisf.org/articles/Acrobat%20Documents/CISM_Defense_of_Field.pdf

Crisis Management Briefings Large Group Crisis Intervention
http://www.icisf.org/Acrobat%20Documents/TerrorismIncident/cmb.pdf

Cross-Cultural Counseling in Disaster Settings
http://www.massey.ac.nz/~trauma/issues/1999-2/doherty.htm


David Baldwin’s Trauma Information Pages
http://www.trauma-pages.com/

Dealing with the Stress of Recovering Human Dead Bodies
http://chppm-www.apgea.army.mil/documents/FACT/36-004-0202.pdf

Death Notification Procedures
http://www.cya.ca.gov/staff/death.html

Debriefing: Confusion and Controversy
http://www.medicalreservecorps.gov/pdf/Clearinghouse/UVAMRCDebriefOverview.pdf

[The] Debriefing “Controversy” & Crisis Intervention-A Review
http://www.icisf.org/articles/Acrobat%20Documents/
The%20Debriefing%20 Controversy.pdf

Disaster and Terrorism – Cognitive-Behavioral Interventions
http://pdm.medicine.wisc.edu/19-1%20pdfs/Walser.pdf

Disaster Mental Health Disaster Assessment State of Indiana
http://www.mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/dtac/DMHassessment/bioterrorism.asp

Disaster Mental Health Response Handbook
http://www.nswiop.nsw.edu.au/Resources/Disaster_Handbook.pdf

Disaster Mental Health Services
http://www.ispub.com/ostia/index.php?xmlFilePath=journals/ijrdm/vol1n2/dmhs.xml

Disaster Mental Health Services-Guidebook for Clinicians & Administrators
http://www.wramc.amedd.army.mil/departments/socialwork/Provider/DMHS.htm

Disaster Stress Following a Hurricane – the Role of Religious Differences in the Fijian Islands
http://www.massey.ac.nz/~trauma/issues/1999-2/gillard.htm

Emotional and Spiritual Care – an Introduction on Basic Concepts
http://www.nvoad.org/articles/ESCCchapterB.pdf

Evaluating the Success of Terror Risk Communications
http://computing.hss.cmu.edu/lernerlab/pdfs/Fischhoff_2003_Bioterroism_Paper.pdf

Every day every minute is so precious
http://www.ldrny.org/TopNews/topnews_OKC.html

Expert Consensus Treatment Guidelines for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder:
A Guide for Patients and Families
http://www.psychguides.com/ptsdhe.pdf


FEMA Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT)-Mental Health Specialty
http://fema.gov/preparedness/resources/health_med/dmat_mental_health.htm

Guilt Following Traumatic Events
http://www.giftfromwithin.org/html/guilt.html

Helping Children and Adolescents Cope with Violence Disasters
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/violence.cfm

Helping Children Cope After a Disaster
http://childadvocate.net/disasterbooklet.pdf

Helping Children Cope with Disaster
http://www.fema.gov/rrr/children.shtm

Helping Survivors in Wake of Disaster
http://www.ncptsd.org/facts/disasters/fs helping survivors.html

How Much Coverage Is Too Much when Reporting On Traumatic Events?
http://www.istss.org/publications/TS/Fall02/media.htm

How Trauma Replays
http://www.dartcenter.org/articles/headlines/2002/2002_09_16.html

Hypervigilence – A Learned Perceptual Set and Its Consequences on Police Stress
http://www.rcmp-learning.org/docs/ecdd1221.htm

[The] Impact of Armed Conflict on Child Development
http://www.un.org/rights/impact.htm


Integrating a Trauma Perspective into Community Work After Group Violence
http://www.istss.org/publications/TS/Fall02/fall02toc.htm

International Critical Stress Foundation - Articles & Resources
http://www.icisf.org/articles/

In the Aftermath of the Tsunami – Addressing Emergency Psychological Needs
http://www.aaets.org/column.htm

Invisible Injuries – Remembering March 11
http://www.ldrny.org/TopNews/topnews_Madrid.html

Ladbroke Grove Railcrash – Analysis of the Support Requested by Bereaved
http://www.marchioness-nsi.org.uk/index.htm

Lessons from First Two Years of Project Heartland
http://ps.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/reprint/50/7/953

Life events lead to more symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder than traumatic events
http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/press/preleases/pr/pr_689.htm

Management of Dead Bodies in Disaster Situations
http://www.paho.org/English/DD/PED/DeadBodiesBook.pdf

Managing Grief Better – People with Intellectual Disability
http://www.intellectualdisability.info/mental_phys_health/grief_sh.html

Managing Workplace Grief
http://www.fmcs.gov/internet/assets/files/Articles/Pepperdine/ManagingWorkplaceGrief.pdf

Measures of Traumatic Stress & Secondary Traumatic Stress
http://www.isu.edu/~bhstamm/tests.htm

Mental Health Services at the Compassion Center – The Oklahoma City Bombings
http://www.ncptsd.va.gov/publications/cq/v5/n4/sitterle.html

Moving Forward in Tokyo
http://www.ldrny.org/TopNews/topnews_032005.html

National Advisory Committee on Children and Terrorism
www.bt.cdc.gov/children/PDF/working/Recommend.pdf

Nat Center Mounts Attack on Earthquake Response
http://www.ncptsd.org//publications/cq/v1/n1/earthquake.html

The Necessity of Denial in Grieving Murder – Observations of the Victims’ Families Following the Bombing in Oklahoma City
http://www.ncptsd.va.gov/publications/cq/v5/n2-3/cummock.html

National Child Traumatic Stress Network
http://www.nctsn.org/nccts/nav.do?pid=hom_main

The Oklahoma City Bombing: A Psychiatrist’s Experience
http://www.aaets.org/article11.htm

OVC Handbook for Coping After Terrorism
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc/publications/infores/cat_hndbk/NCJ190249.pdf

Peer Support at Ground Zero – Interview with Engineer Ann Peggs
http://www.wfsi.org/resources/archive/article_archive.php?article=9

Project Cope
http://www.nymc.edu/wihd/projectcope/pc/

Prospective and Retrospective Life-Charting in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (The PTSD-LCM): A Pilot Study
http://www.usuhs.mil/psy/Osuch_2001_JTraumaticStress_PTSD-LCM.pdf

Psychological Recovery from Disaster Key Concepts for Delivery of Mental Health Services
http://www.ncptsd.org/publications/cq/v4/n2/myers.html

Psychologists volunteer their expertise in talking through trauma
http://www.nysut.org/newyorkteacher/2001-2002/010926psychologist.html

Psychopharmacology & Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
http://www.icisf.org/articles/Acrobat%20Documents/
TerrorismIncident/PTSDPsychoPharm.pdf


Psychosocial Consequences of Natural Disasters in Developing Countries
http://www.ncptsd.org/facts/disasters/fs_tsunami_research.html

Recovery From Unnatural Death
http://www.giftfromwithin.org/html/recovery.html

Reducing the Risk of Premature Crisis Intervention
http://www.icisf.org/articles/Acrobat%20Documents/TerrorismIncident/5princip.pdf

Residuals of Police Occupational Trauma
http://www.massey.ac.nz/~trauma/issues/1997-3/violant1.htm

Responding to September 11 Victims – Lessons Learned from the States
http://www.ovc.gov/publications/infores/911lessonslearned/ovcpost911.pdf

Responding to the Psychological Effects of Major Disasters
http://www.nri-inc.org/conference/Conf03/evansdisaster.ppt

Risks Associated with the Psychological Adjustment of Humanitarian Aid Workers
http://www.massey.ac.nz/~trauma/issues/2004-1/mcfarlane.htm

Rwanda – Advancing Healing and Reconciliation
http://www.heal-reconcile-rwanda.org/index.htm

School Crisis Response Initiative
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc/publications/bulletins/schoolcrisis/ncj197832.pdf

Terrorism: September 11, 2001 Trauma, Grief and Recovery
http://www.giftfromwithin.org/html/firstaid.html

Terrorist Attacks & Children
http://www/ncptsd/org/facts/disasters/fs children disaster.html

Transgenerational effects of posttraumatic stress disorder in babies of mothers exposed to the World Trade Center attacks during pregnancy.
http://jcem.endojournals.org/cgi/rapidpdf/jc.2005-0550v1

The Trauma Center
http://www.traumacenter.org

Trauma exposure and post-traumatic stress symptoms in urban African schools
http://bjp.rcpsych.org/cgi/content/full/184/2/169


Traumatic Stress & Secondary or Vicarious Stress
http://www.isu.edu/~bhstamm/ts.htm

Treating Family Survivors of Mass Casualties
http://www.icisf.org/articles/Acrobat%20Documents/TerrorismIncident/famsurv.pdf

UNMC psychiatric social worker journeys to Ground Zero
http://www.unmc.edu/bioterrorism/groundzero.htm

Victim Awareness and Trauma Management in Metropolitan Police Services
http://www.csvr.org.za/papers/papkgal2.htm

Victim Identification and Family Support in Mass Casualties – The Massachusetts Model
http://www.icisf.org/Acrobat%20Documents/TerrorismIncident/massmodel.pdf

Victims of Disaster – Helping People Recover – From Acute Distress to Healing and Integration
http://www.emergencychaplain.org/giftswithin.htm

What does the news industry need to know about the science related to survivors, the public and news consumption?
http://www.istss.org/terrorism/news_consumption.htm

When Helping Hurts
http://www.dartcenter.org/articles/headlines/2001/2001_10_10.html

WMD & Terrorism-Mental Health Consequences & Implications For Planning & Training
http://www.icisf.org/articles/Acrobat%20Documents/TerrorismIncident/WMD_Myers.pdf

Work-related psychological trauma
http://www.massey.ac.nz/~trauma/issues/1998-1/paton1.htm

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