학술논문
Oklahoma City: disaster challenges mental health and medical administrators.
Document Type
Journal Article
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Subject
*EMERGENCY medical services
*CRISIS intervention (Mental health services)
*OKLAHOMA City Federal Building Bombing, Oklahoma City, Okla., 1995
*POST-traumatic stress disorder
*TREATMENT of post-traumatic stress disorder
*BLAST injuries
*BLAST injury treatment
*BEREAVEMENT
*DISASTERS
*GRIEF
*HUMANITARIANISM
*MEDICAL needs assessment
*VIOLENCE
*PSYCHOLOGY
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ISSN
1094-3412
Abstract
Mental health and medical administrators responded to the Oklahoma City bombing with cooperative and overlapping efforts to meet community needs in the wake of terrorism. The major agencies assisted in the immediate rescue response, organized crisis hotlines, prepared mental health professionals to counsel bereaved families and victims, organized debriefing of rescuers, assessed mental health needs of local school children, planned for longer term treatment, and coordinated research efforts to learn from the disaster. Implications to mental health administrators responding to significant acts of terrorism are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]