Tag: natural disaster
Mental health consequences of disaster in Japan: How reliable are “expert” opinions in the media?
In my previous post I had pointed to ill-informed comments from mental health professionals about the mental health effects of Japan disaster. I will expand on this issue a bit further by highlighting how “expert” opinion on this issue is plagued by various common misconceptions about earthquake trauma. There are numerous examples of this in… Read More ›
Should Japan use Western help in mental healthcare of disaster survivors?
Since the disaster in Japan, I have been coming across in the Internet expressions of opinions or recommendations by various Western mental health professionals as to how Japan should go about helping survivors recover from trauma. Most recommendations as to what survivors should do to recover from their trauma are simply reiterations of widely accepted… Read More ›
The likely psychological toll of the disaster in Japan and its socio-economic consequences: Prospects for recovery from mass trauma
The recent 9.0-magnitude earthquake in Japan and the devastating tsunami that followed are likely to lead to widespread mental health problems in survivors. Based on our research with earthquake survivors in Turkey, we would expect traumatic stress problems severe enough to require treatment in more than 50% of the people with high levels of expoure… Read More ›
Recommended reading on treatment of earthquake survivors
After the earthquakes in New Zealand and Japan, I have been getting requests for information about treatment of earthquake survivors from mental health professionals. Below is a list of our publications about treatment of earthquake survivors (updated March 2013). Book Basoglu M, Salcioglu E (2011) A mental healthcare model for mass trauma survivors: Control-Focused Behavioral… Read More ›
