Integrating Emergency Management and Disaster Behavioral Health: One Picture through Two Lenses

Integrating Emergency Management and Disaster Behavioral Health and Science identifies the most critical areas of integration between the profession of emergency management and the specialty of disaster behavioral health, providing perspectives from both of these critical areas, and also including very practical advice and examples on how to address key topics. Each chapter features primary text written by a subject matter expert from a related field that is accompanied by a comment by another profession that is then illustrated with a case study of, or a suggested method for, collaboration. Addresses the current state of the collaboration between the emergency management and disaster behavioral health communities as presented from pioneers in their respective fieldsFocuses on practical examples of what works and what doesn'tStresses both legal and ethical considerations and the public-private partnerships that are important for leadership in disaster situationsCovers Emergency Operations Centers (EOCs) and risk communication INDICE: Section I: The History and Context of Integrating Emergency Management and Disaster Behavioral Health 1. Where Emergency Management and Disaster Behavioral Health Meet: Through the EM Lens 2. Where EM and BH Meet:  Through the BH Lens 3. Why Is Integrating DBH Essential to EM? Challenges and Opportunities 4. Why Is Integrating EM Essential to DBH? Challenges and Opportunities Section II: Key Considerations in Accomplishing Integration 5. Integration in Disasters of Different Types, Severity, and Location 6. Not All Disasters Are the Same:  Understanding the Similarities and Differences 7. What Can DBH Actually Do To Make Emergency Managers Jobs Easier? 8. Expanding the Tent: How Training and Education Partnerships with Other Professions Can Enhance Both EM and BH Discussion Section III: Special Opportunities and Challenges in Optimizing the Benefits of Integration 9. Linking with Private Sector Business and Industry 10. Integration in the Emergency Operations Center (EOC)/Command Center 11. Risk and Crisis Communications 12. How to Navigate External Factors: Legal, Ethical and Political Issues 13. Sustaining the Integration: The Way Forward 14. Conclusion and Summary

• ISBN: 978-0-12-803638-9
• Editorial: Butterworth-Heinemann
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 300
• Fecha Publicación: 01/03/2017
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés