| Acknowledgments | p. ix |
| Editors brief bio | p. x |
| List of contributors | p. xiii |
| Foreword | p. xxvi |
| Introduction | |
| Mental health in the wake of terrorism: making sense of mass casualty trauma | p. 3 |
| The psychological aftermath of 9/11 | |
| Preface | p. 17 |
| Post-traumatic stress symptoms in the general population after a disaster: implications for public health | p. 19 |
| Coping with a national trauma: a nationwide longitudinal study of responses to the terrorist attacks of September 11 | p. 45 |
| An epidemiological response to disasters: the post-9/11 psychological needs assessment of New York City public school students | p. 71 |
| Historical perspective and future directions in research on psychiatric consequences of terrorism and other disasters | p. 95 |
| Capturing the impact of large-scale events through epidemiological research | p. 114 |
| Mental health research in the aftermath of disasters: using the right methods to ask the right questions | p. 128 |
| Reducing the burden: community response and community recovery | |
| Community and ecological approaches to understanding and alleviating postdisaster distress | p. 141 |
| What is collective recovery? | p. 157 |
| Rebuilding communities post-disaster in New York | p. 164 |
| Journalism and the public during catastrophes | p. 178 |
| Effective leadership in extreme crisis | p. 197 |
| Guiding community intervention following terrorist attack | p. 215 |
| Outreach and intervention in the wake of terrorist attacks | |
| Science for the community after 9/11 | p. 231 |
| New York area | |
| PTSD in urban primary care patients following 9/11 | p. 239 |
| Project Liberty: responding to mental health needs after the World Trade Center terrorist attacks | p. 264 |
| Mental health services support in response to September 11: the central role of the Mental Health Association of New York City | p. 282 |
| The New York Consortium for Effective Trauma Treatment | p. 311 |
| Evaluation and treatment of firefighters and utility workers following the World Trade Center attacks | p. 333 |
| The World Trade Center Worker/Volunteer Mental Health Screening Program | p. 355 |
| Child and adolescent trauma treatments and services after September 11: implementing evidence-based practices into complex child services systems | p. 378 |
| Relationally and developmentally focused interventions with young children and their caregivers in the wake of terrorism and other violent experiences | p. 402 |
| Washington, DC | |
| The mental health response to the 9/11 attacks on the Pentagon | p. 427 |
| Learning lessons from the early intervention response to the Pentagon | p. 446 |
| Prolonged-exposure treatment as a core resource for clinicians in the community: dissemination of trauma knowledge post-disaster | |
| Psychological treatments for PTSD: an overview | p. 457 |
| Dissemination of prolonged exposure therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder: successes and challenges | p. 475 |
| Mental health community response to 9/11: training therapists to practice evidence-based psychotherapy | p. 496 |
| Disasters and mental health: perspectives on response and preparedness | |
| The epidemiology of 9/11: technological advances and conceptual conundrums | p. 521 |
| Searching for points of convergence: a commentary on prior research on disasters and some community programs initiated in response to September 11, 2001 | p. 529 |
| What mental health professionals should and should not do | p. 543 |
| Coping with the threat of terrorism | p. 570 |
| Life under the "new normal": notes on the future of preparedness | p. 592 |
| Lessons learned from 9/11: the boundaries of a mental health approach to mass casualty events | p. 605 |
| Learning from 9/11: implications for disaster research and public health | p. 617 |
| Index | p. 631 |
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