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Disaster Psychiatry

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Larger-scale traumatic events are overwhelming. Clinicians who are deployed on sites to assist a large group of people must operate at various levels simultaneously. With an emphasis on promoting safety throughout the entire process, this chapter addresses the biopsychosocial components of an emergency team response, including triaging, psychological first aid, communication with media, and self-care.

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  1. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, APSS Stockton Clinic, Davis Health System, University of California, Sacramento, CA, USA

    Caroline Giroux MD

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  1. Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioural Neuros, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

    Ana Hategan

  2. Dept. of Psychiatry/Langley Porter Psych, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, New York, USA

    James A. Bourgeois

  3. Dept.of Internal Med.,Div of General Med, University of California Davis, Sacramento, California, USA

    Calvin H. Hirsch

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Giroux, C. (2016). Disaster Psychiatry. In: Hategan, A., Bourgeois, J., Hirsch, C. (eds) On-Call Geriatric Psychiatry. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30346-8_23

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