School-Based Multisystemic Interventions For Mass Trauma

Preface. Foreword by Professor Laura Barbanel. Part I: Theoretical and Empirical Background on Mass Disasters, Stress Responses, and Positive Responding. Section A: Introduction: Triggers and Assumptions. 1. The Events Triggering This Book. 2. Our Preliminary Assumptions. Section B: The Psychological Impact of Disasters on Children. 3. Impact of Context, Personal Factors, and Recovery Environment on Psychological Responses to Disaster. 4. Two Extreme Contexts for Disaster: Terrorist Attack and Unconventional Weapon Use. Section C: Post-Disaster Stress and Loss Reactions, Processing and Coping. 5. From Normative Post-Disaster Stress Response to Full-Fledged Disorder. 6. Bereavement in the Wake of Traumatic Death. 7. The Effects of Traumatic Events on the Family, the Parent-Child Relationship, and the Parent-School Partnership. 8. Coping, Habituation, Resilience, and Trauma-Induced Growth . Part II: Multi-Systemic Interventions In Schools. Section D: Conceptual Basis for School-Wide Preventative Intervention. 9. The Generic Intervention Approach and Principles. 10. Developmental, Functional and Cultural Considerations. Section E: Interventions for Students, Staff, and Families. 11. School-Based 7-Level Preventive Intervention Model. 12. Active, Positive, and Expressive Activities That Foster Students' Adaptive Coping and Processing. 13. School-Based Preventive Interventions with Parents Around Mass Trauma. 14. Tertiary Prevention: Assessment and Treatment of PTSD and Trauma-Related Disorders in Children. Endnote. References.