Mental Health Professionals
Federal Guidance - HHS
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Federal Guidance - HHS Collaborations
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Other Federal Guidance
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International Guidance
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Issues for Health Care Providers
- Sheikh S, McCormick LC, Pevear J, Adoff S, Walter FG, Kazzi ZN, Radiological preparedness-awareness and attitudes: a cross-sectional survey of emergency medicine residents and physicians at three academic institutions in the United States. Clin Toxicol (Phila). 2012 Jan;50(1):34-8. Epub 2011 Dec 19. [PubMed Citation]
- Becker SM, Middleton SA. Improving hospital preparedness for radiological terrorism: perspectives from emergency department physicians and nurses. Disaster Med Public Health Prep. 2008 Oct;2(3):174-84. [PubMed Citation]
- Veenema TG, Walden B, Feinstein N, Williams J. Factors Affecting Hospital-based Nurses' Willingness to Respond to a Radiation Emergency. Disaster Med Public Health Prep. 2008 Dec;2(4):224-9. [PubMed Citation]
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Issues for Affected Populations
- Engel CC, Locke S, Reissman DB, DeMartino R, Kutz I, McDonald M, Barsky AJ. Terrorism, trauma, and mass casualty triage: how might we solve the latest mind-body problem? Biosecur Bioterror. 2007 Jun;5(2):155-63. [PubMed Citation]
- "Listen, Protect, and Connect": Psychological First Aid for Children and Parents (PDF - 170 KB) (University of California Los Angeles, School of Public Health)
- Schreiber M, Gurwitch R, Wong M, Schonfeld D. Listen, Protect, and Connect: Psychological First Aid for Children, Parents, and other Caregivers after Natural Disasters, 2006. (PDF - 1.8 MB) (UCLA Center for Public Health and Disasters and the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Center, National Center for School Crisis and Bereavement)
- "Listen, Protect, and Connect" - Psychological First Aid for Teachers and Schools (PDF - 715 KB) (University of California Los Angeles, School of Public Health)
- Vyner HM. The psychological dimensions of health care for patients exposed to radiation and the other invisible environmental contaminants. Soc Sci Med. 1988;27(10):1097-103. [PubMed Citation]
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Other Resources
- Chernobyl at Twenty (NCRP Program Presentation No. 42), National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements, Bethesda, MD, 2006.
- Becker SM. Emergency Communication and Information Issues in Terrorism Events Involving Radioactive Materials. (PDF - 89 KB) Biosecurity and Bioterrorism. 2004;2(3): 195-207.[PubMed Citation]
- Preparing for the Psychological Consequences of Terrorism: A Public Health Strategy, Committee on Responding to the Psychological Consequences of Terrorism, Butler AS, Panzer AM, Goldfrank LR, eds., Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, The National Academies Press, Washington, DC, 2003
- Management of Terrorist Events Involving Radioactive Material (NCRP Report No. 138), National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements, Bethesda, MD, 2001. (See Chapter 5: Psychosocial Effects of Radiological Terrorist Incidents, pp. 54-69.)
- Becker SM: Psychosocial Effects of Radiation Accidents. In: Gusev IA, Guskova AK, Mettler FA Jr, eds.: Medical Management of Radiation Accidents, 2nd ed. Boca Raton, Fl: CRC Press, 2001, pp. 519-525.
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