Integrating Emergency Management and Disaster Behavioral Health
One Picture through Two Lenses
Published on 18. January 2017
370 pages
978-0-12-803639-6 (ISBN)
Description
Integrating Emergency Management and Disaster Behavioral Health 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 fields
- Focuses on practical examples of what works and what doesn't
- Stresses both legal and ethical considerations and the public-private partnerships that are important for leadership in disaster situations
- Covers Emergency Operations Centers (EOCs) and risk communication
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Brian Flynn | Ronald Sherman
Integrating Emergency Management and Disaster Behavioral Health
One Picture through Two Lenses
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Content
Section I: Context1. Where Emergency Management and Disaster Behavioral Health Meet: Through an Emergency Management Lens2. Where Emergency Management and Disaster Behavioral Health Meet: Through a Disaster Behavioral Health Lens3. Why Is Integrating Disaster Behavior Health Essential to Emergency Management? Challenges and Opportunities4. Why Is Integrating Emergency Management Essential to Disaster Behavioral Health? Challenges and Opportunities
Section II: Key Areas of Integration5. Integration in Disasters of Different Types, Severity, and Location6. Not All Disasters Are the Same: Understanding Similarities and Differences7. 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 BH9. Linking with Private Sector Business and Industry
Section III: Special Opportunities to Enhance Integration10. Integration in the Emergency Operations Center (EOC)/Emergency Communications Center (ECC)11. Risk and Crisis Communications12. How to Navigate External Factors: Legal, Ethical, and Political Issues13. Sustaining Integration: A Way Forward14. Conclusion/Summary
