Recovering from extreme weather events and disasters

Recovering from extreme weather events and disasters

• 3-tiered best-practice framework to guide provision of psychosocial support following disasters
• Guidelines for provision of 3 levels of psychological support to people affected by bushfires 
• Psychological First Aid: An Australian Guide
• Psychological First Aid: A Japanese translation
• Understanding and managing psychological trauma
• Australian Guidelines for the Treatment of Adults with Acute Stress Disorder and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
• PTSD Clinical Treatment Algorithm
• Disaster Recovery in Small, Rural and Remote Communities NEW

APS Disaster Briefings Training Videos

• Tasmanian bushfire recovery briefing, February 14, 2013

• Queensland flood disaster recovery briefing presentation

• Black Saturday bushfire disaster recovery briefing, 3 March 2009
  
  

Bushfires and psychologists facebook page

This group is for psychologists living or working in areas affected by bushfires, or other psychologists with an interest or expertise in extreme weather events.

• https://www.facebook.com/groups/201087700075431/
  
  

Recovery articles

Australian Business Roundtable. (2016). The Economic cost of the social impact of Natural Disasters. http://australianbusinessroundtable.com.au/our-papers/social-costs-report.

Bisson, J. (2003). Single session early interventions following traumatic events. Clinical Psychology Review, 23, 481-499.

Bonanno, G.A. et al (2010) Weighing the Costs of Disaster: Consequences, Risks, and Resilience in Individuals, Families, and Communities. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 1(11), 1-49.

Bourque, L.B., Siegel, J.M., Kano, M., & Wood, M.M. (2006). Weathering the storm: The impact of hurricanes on physical and mental health. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 604, 129-151.

Bryant, R.A., Harvey, A.G., Dang, S.T., Sackville, T., & Basten, C. (1999). Treating Acute Stress Disorder: An Evaluation of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and Supportive Counseling Techniques. American Journal of Psychiatry, 156(11).    

Bryant, R.A. (2003). Early Predictors of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Society of Biological Psychiatry, 53, 789–795.

Bryant, R. (2007) Early intervention for post-traumatic stress disorder. Early intervention psychiatry, Feb (1), 19-26.

Bryant, R.A., Mastrodomenico, J., Felmingham, K.L., Hopwood, S., Kenny, L., Kandris, E., Cahill, C., & Creamer, M. (2008). Treatment of Acute Stress Disorder: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Archives of General Psychiatry, 65(6), 659-667.

Bryant, R. (2009) The impact of natural disasters on mental health. Inpsych April 2009.

https://www.psychology.org.au/inpsych/impact_disasters/

Brymer, M., Jacobs, A., Layne, C., Pynoos, R., Ruzek, J., Steinberg, A., Vernberg, E., & Watson, P.  (2006). Psychological first aid. Field operations guide. Second Edition. National Child Traumatic Stress Network, National Center for PTSD.

Devilly, G., Gist, R., & Cotton, P. (2006). Ready! Aim! Fire! The status of psychological debriefing and therapeutic interventions: In the work place and after disasters. Review of General Psychology, 10, 318-345.

Foa, E.B., Keane T.M., et al. (2008). Effective treatments for PTSD: Practice guidelines from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, 2^nd Edition. New York: Guildford Press.

Foa, E. B., & Rothbaum, B.O. (1998). Treating the trauma of rape: Cognitive-behavioural therapy for PTSD.  New York: Guilford Press.

Forbes, D., Creamer, M., Phelps, A.J., Couineau, A.L., Cooper, J.A., Bryant, R.A., McFarlane, A.C., & Raphael, B. (2007). Treating adults with acute stress disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder in general practice: A clinical update. Medical Journal of Australia, 187, 120-123.

Forbes, D., Creamer, M., Phelps, A.J., Bryant, R., McFarlane, A., Devilly, G., Matthews, L., & Newton, S. (2007). Australian guidelines for the treatment of adults with acute

stress disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 41, 637-648.

Gordon, R. (2004b). Community Process and the Recovery Environment following Emergency. Australian Journal of Environmental Health, 4(1), 19-34.

Gordon, R. (2004c). The social system as site of disaster impact and resource for recovery. Australian Journal of Emergency Management, 19(4), 16-22.

Gordon, R. (2009) Community impact of disaster and community recovery.  Inpsych, April 2009 https://www.psychology.org.au/inpsych/community_impact/.

Global Young Academy. (2016). Fresh eyes on the refugee crisis – an interdisciplinary approach. Koninklijke Nederlandse. Akaemie Van Wetenschappen.

Haskett, M.E., Scott, S.S., Nears, K., & Grimmett, M.A. (2008). Lessons from Katrina: Disaster mental health service in the Gulf Coast region. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 39, 93-99.

Hobfoll, S. E., Watson, P. J., Bell, C. C., Bryant, R. A., Brymer, M. J., Friedman, M. J., . . . Ursano, R. J. (2007). Five essential elements of immediate and mid-term mass trauma intervention: Empirical evidence. Psychiatry, 70, 283–315.

Kaniasty, K., & Norris, F. (1999). The experience of disaster: Individuals and communities sharing trauma. In Gist, R. & Lubin, B. (Eds.), Response to Disaster: Psychosocial, community, and ecological approaches. (pp. 25-61). Ann Arbor: Brunner/Mazel.

Kaniasty, K., & Norris, F.H. (2009). Distinctions that matter: Received social support, perceived social support, and social embeddedness after disasters. In Y. Neria, S. Galea, F. Norris (Eds.). Mental health consequences of disasters (pp. 175-200). New York: Cambridge University Press.

La Greca, A.M., Silverman, W.K., Vernberg, E.M., & Roberts, M.C. (2002). (Eds.), Helping children cope with disasters and terrorism. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

McNally, R.J., Bryant, R.A., & Ehlers, A. (2003). Doesearly psychological intervention promote recovery from posttraumatic stress? Psychological science in the public interest, 4(2), 45-79.

Norris, F. H., Friedman, M. J., Watson, P J., Byrne, C. M., Diaz, E., & Kaniasty, K. (2002). 60,000 disaster victims speak: Part I. An empirical review of the empirical literature, 1981–2001. Psychiatry, 65(3), 207–239.

Nursery,J., Lau,W., & Forbes,D. Management of psychological trauma across service settings and context. Inpsych February 2016. https://www.psychology.org.au/inpsych/2016/psychological-trauma/

Phoenix Australia. (2013). Australian Guidelines for the Treatment of Acute Stress Disorder and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Melbourne Victoria: ACPMH.

Reyes, G. (2006). Psychological first aid: Principles of community-based psychosocial support. In G. Reyes & G.A. Jacobs (Eds.), Handbook of international disaster psychology: Practices and programs, 2, (pp. 1-13). Westport, CT: Praeger.

Ruzek, J.I., Brymer, M.J., Jacobs, A.K., Layne, C.M., Vernberg, E.M. & Watson, P.J. (2007). Psychological first aid. Journal of Mental Health Counseling, 29, 17-49.

Siegel, J.M., Bourque, L.B. & Shoaf, K. I. (1999). Victimization after a natural disaster: Social disorganization or community cohesion? International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters, 17(3), 265-294.

 Sweet, S. (1998). The effect of a natural disaster on social cohesion: A longitudinal study. International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters, 16(3), 312-331.