HaRT Reference Library       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. Links to the articles and websites listed below are organized by category. Any link suggestions can be made through the Contact Us link at the bottom of the page.     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 CROSS-CULTURAL MOURNING PRACTICES & MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT African Commonalities With Continents Between Us http://www.indiana.edu/~famlygrf/culture/cultlang.html Cultural Interpretation of Dying and Death in a Non-Western Society – Nigeria http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~culture/Eyetsemitan2.htm “Haile”: A Discussion of Grief in Ethiopia http://www.indiana.edu/~famlygrf/culture/bladen.html African-American Palliative Care in African American Communities http://www2.edc.org/lastacts/archives/archivesSept01/default.asp Asian-Oriental-Pacific Islander Buddhism: Grief & Tibetan Buddhism http://www.indiana.edu/~famlygrf/culture/workman.html Tibetan Buddhism and the resolution of grief: The Bardo-Thodol for the dying and the grieving http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-ADM/goss.htm Chinese: Chinese customs – Funeral customs & the wake http://www.chinatown-online.co.uk/pages/culture/customs/funerals.html Chinese View of Death http://www.indiana.edu/~famlygrf/culture/hancock.html Crossing the Gate of Death in Chinese Buddhist Culture http://www.yogichen.org/efiles/mbk16.html Cultural Interview with “Kathy” http://www.indiana.edu/~famlygrf/culture/tu.html Grief in the Chinese Culture http://www.indiana.edu/~famlygrf/culture/simmons.html Once They Die, They Become the People that Watch Over Us http://www.indiana.edu/~famlygrf/culture/forsythe.html Tomb-Sweeping Festival in Taiwan http://www.thefuneraldirectory.com/moneyburn.html Filipino: Death and Loss in the Phillipines http://www.indiana.edu/~famlygrf/culture/clark.html Grief in the Filipino Family Context http://www.indiana.edu/~famlygrf/culture/babaoguballa.html Hindu: Death and Dying – Hinduism Today Jan 1997 http://www.hinduismtoday.com/archives/1997/1/1997-1-03.shtml How I Sent My Father to Heaven – Proceedings of Hindu Death Ritual http://www.kamat.com/indica/culture/death/heaven.htm Vaisnava Hindu and Ayurvedic Approaches to Caring for the Dying http://www2.edc.org/lastacts/archives/archivesNov99/intlpersp.asp Japanese: 2 Articles – Common Sense & Japanese Patients http://www2.edc.org/lastacts/archives/archivesMarch99/intlpersp.asp Grief, Mourning, and Funeral Traditions – Japanese Americans in Hawaii http://www.indiana.edu/~hperf558/culture/cultprin.html Japanese Funeral http://www.osoushiki-plaza.com/eng/eng1.html Korean: Korean Funeral Rites http://www.asianinfo.org/asianinfo/korea/cel/funeral_rites.htm Pacific Islander: Meeting the Mental Health Needs of Asian and Pacific Islander Americans http://www.nasmhpd.org/general_files/publications/ntac_pubs/reports/ASIAN.PDF Observations from a Cyclone Stress/Trauma Assignment in the Cook Islands http://www.fsu.edu/~trauma/art3v4i1.html Bibliographies CBHD: Selected Bibliography on Cross-Cultural Bioethics http://www.cbhd.org/resources/bioethics/ccbibliography.htm Centre for Culture and Health – Bibliography http://cch.med.unsw.edu.au/cch.nsf/website/resources.learning.endoflife.references Death and Dying in Multicultural Perspective – Bibliography http://www.sunyit.edu/library/html/culturedmed/bib/dd/ General Info – Cross-Cultural Mourning & Mental Heallth Treatment Cross-Cultural Counseling in Disaster Settings http://www.massey.ac.nz/~trauma/issues/1999-2/doherty.htm Cross-Cultural Expressions of Grief and Loss – When an Infant Dies http://www.acog.org/from_home/departments/dept_notice.cfm?recno=10&bulletin=2866 Cross-Cultural Responses to Grief and Mourning http://www.journeyofhearts.org/jofh/kirstimd/AMSA/cross_cult.htm Cultural Competence in Children’s Mental Health http://www.nasmhpd.org/general_files/publications/ntac_pubs/networks/sg97nofr.html Cultural Competence Standards Mental Health – Four Underserved Racial-Ethnic Groups http://www.mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/publications/allpubs/SMA00-3457/intro.asp Cultural Competency – a Practical Guide for Mental Health Service Providers http://www.hogg.utexas.edu/Pages/Cultural.html Cultural Considerations in End-of-Life Care http://www.aacn.nche.edu/ELNEC/pdf/PalliativeCareAJN6.pdf Cultural Considerations of End-of-Life Care http://www.cancersourcern.com/community/archive.cfm?contentid=25584 Cultural Dimensions of Care at Life’s End for Children and Their Families http://books.nap.edu/html/children_die/AppD.pdf Cultural Diversity and Grief http://www.compassionatwork.com/art_cultural.html Cultural Perspectives on Trauma and Critical Response http://www.nasponline.org/NEAT/neat_cultural.html Designing Services for Children and Their Families Before and After Disaster http://www.nasponline.org/NEAT/neat_cultural.html Diversities in Approach to End-of-Life http://www.angelfire.com/zine/kipworld/diversities.pdf How Death Imitates Life – Cultural Influences on Conceptions of Death and Dying http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~culture/gire.htm King County’s Chief Medical Examiner Speaks on Issues of Cultures, Communities and the Medical Examiner Office http://ethnomed.org/ethnomed/clin_topics/death/me_interview.html Oncology Nursing Society Multicultural Outcomes: Guidelines for Cultural Competence http://www.cityofhope.org/prc/pdf/multicultural.pdf Providing Culturally Competent Crisis Counseling Services http://www.projectliberty.state.ny.us/Resources/PLCultural.pdf Psychosocial Consequences of Natural Disasters in Developing Countries: What Does Past Research Tell Us About the Potential Effects of the 2004 Tsunami http://www.ncptsd.org/facts/disasters/fs_tsunami_research.html Self-Assessment of Cross Cultural End-of-Life Care http://www.careofdying.org/Tools/Cross%20Cultural%20assessment%2003%2007.html Hispanic-Latino A Brazilian’s Description of Grief and Bereavement Practices http://www.indiana.edu/~famlygrf/culture/scheinfeld.html Death and Grief Cuban Style http://www.indiana.edu/~famlygrf/culture/heller.html Islamic An Enlightening Experience http://www.indiana.edu/~famlygrf/culture/jdiehl_culture.html Interview with “Nisa” http://www.indiana.edu/~famlygrf/culture/jpasch_culture.html Maryam Imam – A Muslim View http://www.indiana.edu/~famlygrf/culture/moore.html Jewish Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about Jewish Mourning Practices from Non-Jewish Relatives http://www.interfaithfamily.com/article/issue23/egrollman.phtml Bereavement http://columbiajewish.org/pgms_bereavement.htm Exploration of Alternatives for Educating Jewish Adolescents to Death http://www.jewish-funerals.org/elkin.htm Burial Mourning Customs http://www.jafi.org.il/education/lifecycle/burial/9.html Guide to Jewish Mourning and Condolence http://www.vbs.org/religious/mourning_bot.htm Guide to Taharah Practices for Men http://jewish-funerals.org/ohrkodeshmen.pdf Guide to Taharah Practices for Women http://jewish-funerals.org/ohrkodeshwomen.pdf Interfaith Mourning Issues: A Reconstructionist Approach http://www.interfaithfamily.com/article/issue126/hirsch.phtml Jewish Death and Mourning Customs http://www.utah.edu/hillel/mourning.htm Jewish Funeral and Mourning Customs http://www.thefuneraldirectory.com/jewishcustoms.html Judaism 101: Life, Death and Mourning http://www.jewfaq.org/death.htm Stretching a Jewish Vigil for the Sept. 11 Dead http://jewish-funerals.org/wtcshmira.htm Tahara – First Person Accounts http://jewish-funerals.org/tahara.htm Web site of the Jewish Funeral Practices Committee of Greater Washington http://jewish-funerals.org/mourning.htm Miscellaneaous Cultures Aboriginal Culture and Grief: An Interview with Ray Minniecon http://www.compassionatwork.com/articles.html Cross-Cultural Funeral Rites http://www.biomed.lib.umn.edu/hw/ccf.html Indigenous Grief http://www.grieflink.asn.au/indigenous.html Interview – Paddy Reilly http://www.indiana.edu/~famlygrf/culture/david_culture.html Native American Comparison of Grief and Culture from Two Perspectives http://www.indiana.edu/~famlygrf/culture/sdean_culture.html Death: A Lakota Lutheran Perspective http://www.indiana.edu/~famlygrf/culture/minton.html Meeting the Mental Health Needs of American Indians and Alaska Natives http://www.consumerstar.org/pubs/MeetingAmerican.pdf About Cyntelix, Inc. 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