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Integrating Emergency Management and Disaster Behavioral Health
One Picture through Two Lenses
- 1st Edition - January 18, 2017
- Editors: Brian Flynn, Ronald Sherman
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 0 3 6 3 8 - 9
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 0 3 6 3 9 - 6
Integrating Emergency Management and Disaster Behavioral Health identifies the most critical areas of integration between the profession of emergency management and the specialty… Read more
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Request a sales quoteIntegrating Emergency Management and Disaster Behavioral Health identifies the most critical areas of integration between the profession of emergency management and the specialty of disaster behavioral health, providing perspectives from both of these critical areas, and also including very practical advice and examples on how to address key topics.
Each chapter features primary text written by a subject matter expert from a related field that is accompanied by a comment by another profession that is then illustrated with a case study of, or a suggested method for, collaboration.
- Addresses the current state of the collaboration between the emergency management and disaster behavioral health communities as presented from pioneers in their respective fields
- Focuses on practical examples of what works and what doesn’t
- Stresses both legal and ethical considerations and the public-private partnerships that are important for leadership in disaster situations
- Covers Emergency Operations Centers (EOCs) and risk communication
Practitioners in emergency management, behavioral health, homeland security, public administration, health care administration, public health. Students in upper level classes in disaster management or disaster psychology
- Dedication
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Topic Selection
- Structure
- Terminology
- Section I: Context
- Section I. Context
- Chapter 1. Where Emergency Management and Disaster Behavioral Health Meet: Through an Emergency Management Lens
- Chapter 2. Where Emergency Management and Disaster Behavioral Health Meet: Through a Disaster Behavioral Health Lens
- Chapter 3. Why Is Integrating Disaster Behavior Health Essential to Emergency Management? Challenges and Opportunities
- Chapter 4. Why Is Integrating Emergency Management Essential to Disaster Behavioral Health? Challenges and Opportunities
- Section II: Key Areas of Integration
- Section II. Key Areas of Integration
- Chapter 5. Integration in Disasters of Different Types, Severity, and Location
- Chapter 6. Not All Disasters Are the Same: Understanding Similarities and Differences
- Chapter 7. What Can DBH Actually Do To Make Emergency Managers Jobs Easier?
- Chapter 8. Expanding the Tent: How Training and Education Partnerships with Other Professions Can Enhance Both EM and BH
- Chapter 9. Linking with Private Sector Business and Industry
- Section III: Special Opportunities to Enhance Integration
- Section III. Special Opportunities to Enhance Integration
- Chapter 10. Integration in the Emergency Operations Center (EOC)/Emergency Communications Center (ECC)
- Chapter 11. Risk and Crisis Communications
- Chapter 12. How to Navigate External Factors: Legal, Ethical, and Political Issues
- Chapter 13. Sustaining Integration: A Way Forward
- Chapter 14. Conclusion/Summary
- Index
- No. of pages: 370
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 18, 2017
- Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128036389
- eBook ISBN: 9780128036396
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