Emanating from a working group of the American Psychological Association, this comprehensive volume provides a blueprint for pandemic preparedness for health and mental health professionals. It reviews the actual experiences faced by practitioners during the current Covid crisis, and provides historical context of past health crises, such as the 1918 flu epidemic. Lessons learned from previous health disasters are utilized to provide guidelines and best practices for managing large scale health crises. The goal of this book is to offer the tools for health providers to mobilize, collaborate and provide effective and compassionate services. Relevant to psychologists, psychiatrists, nurses, social workers and others, this volume is an invaluable resource for the present and for the inevitable pandemics to come.
Charles Figley is the Kurzweg Chair in Disaster Mental Health and Distinguished Professor at Tulane University's School of Social Work. He has published twenty-nine books and more than 300 articles and chapters during his 50-year career. He was named Chair of this Interdivisional Task Force on the Pandemic by the President of the APAs Division on Trauma Psychology.
Dr. Lenore E. A. Walker is a Professor Emerita from Nova Southeastern Universitys College of Psychology. She has written extensively in the area of interpersonal and gender violence, is Chairing the APA Working Group on Professional Practice Guidelines for PTSD and trauma, and testifies and lectures around the world on Battered Woman Syndrome.
Dr. Ilene A. Serlin, BC-DMT is in the independent practice of psychology in San Francisco as a psychologist and dance movement therapist. She was a founding member of the Trauma Division of APA, co-editor of Integrative Care for the Traumatized and Whole Person Healthcare, and trains mental health providers internationally in whole person methods.
