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The newly accepted truism is that in the wake of the disaster the people in psychological crisis (sometimes referred to psychological casualties) will outnumber the physical casualties associated with the same disaster. According to former Assistant Surgeon General Brian Flynn, “In situation after situation across the globe, the psychological footprint of large-scale disasters…has far exceeded the medical footprint” (Flynn in Textbook of disaster psychiatry. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, p. 285, 2007). This surge in demand for acute mental health services must be addressed. In the previous chapter, we discussed psychological crisis intervention as a tactical means of providing psychological assistance to those experiencing acute stress reactions regardless of the cause of their distress. In this chapter, we expand that discussion to review the strategic response. More specifically, we shall review the process of strategic planning to best meet the greatest surge in demand for acute mental health services, disasters. While strategic planning is useful in emergency settings, it is essential in the wake of disasters.
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Everly, G.S., Lating, J.M. (2019). Disaster Mental Health: Strategic Planning. In: A Clinical Guide to the Treatment of the Human Stress Response. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-9098-6_11
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