Information for Disaster Researchers

Research following disaster is important to help us understand how to best provide support in the aftermath, both immediately and longer term. Below find references to articles that are relevant to the disaster at hand.

• 60,000 Disaster Victims Speak (2002): Part I, an empirical review of the empirical literature, 1981-2001 (PDF)
• 60,000 Disaster Victims Speak (2002): Part II, summary and implications of the disaster mental health research (PDF)
• Five essential elements of immediate and mid-term mass trauma intervention: Empirical evidence (2007) (PDF)
• Community resilience as a metaphor, theory, set of capacities, and strategy for disaster readiness (2008) (PDF)
• Interventions for individuals after mass violence and disaster: Recommendations from the Roundtable on Screening and Assessment, Outreach, and Intervention for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Needs Following Disasters and Mass Violence (2006) (PDF)
• Assessment and treatment of adult acute responses to traumatic stress following mass traumatic events (2005) (PDF)
• Early physical health consequences of disaster exposure and acute disaster-related PTSD (2006) (PDF)