[MR] Helpful Sites for Dealing with Trauma

[Dominica Harlan]

Greetings All!

I am in a master's level program for Clinical
Psychology at UNC-Charlotte. Our professor forwarded
this list of sites that the psych community is
circulating to help counselors help those dealing with
the shock and grief. Please check them out and use
them to help deal with your own troubles or to help
you be more sympathetic to those around you who are
struggling with this tragedy. We can't all give blood
or deal with the other concrete aspects of this
tragedy, but we can all show caring and support for
our neighbors and make sure that we are functioning as
well as we can for those who need us to be strong.
After all, what is a country but a very big
neighborhood?
Kilmeny

ps I am a trained crisis counselor and can give more
detailed advice or references, in *private*, to anyone
with specific needs/questions about psych services.

For more details on responding, see the Quick Find on
our website http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu – Go to the
Center Response section and scroll to "Crisis
Prevention and Response." One of the things you will
find cited is our resource aid "Responding to a Crisis
at a School" which contains specific guidelines for
responding and follow-up in the weeks to come. You can
download this with a click and print off the relevant
materials.

A few additional resources include the following:

Coping with Emotions after a Disaster
http://www.psychworks.com/PTSD%20response.htm

Managing Traumatic Stress, American Psychological
Association. http://www.apa.org

After a Disaster: Steps You Can Take to Cope with a
Stressful Situation
http://www.wright.edu/sopp/cps/TraumaticStress.html   
                                    
The Child Survivor of Traumatic Stress
http://users.umassmed.edu/Kenneth.Fletcher/kidsurv.html

Helping Children After a Disaster: Facts for Families
from the American Academy of Child and Adolescent
Psychiatry http://www.aacap.org/

National Center for PTSD has a large literature base
http://www.ncptsd.org/

If you have something particularly useful that we can
circulate by email to those on our various listservs,
please get it to us quickly.

School Mental Health Project/
Center for Mental Health in Schools
UCLA Dept. of Psychology
Los Angeles, CA  90095-1563
(310) 825-3634 / Fax: (310) 206-8716
Email: smhp at ucla.edu 
Web: http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu




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James R. Cook, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology
Director, Community SUPPORT Project
Psychology Department
UNC Charlotte
9201 University City Blvd
Charlotte, NC 28223

Phone: 704-687-4758
Fax: 704-687-3096
Email: jcook at email.uncc.edu

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"The future belongs to those who believe
in the beauty of their dreams."

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