School-Based Multisystemic Interventions for Mass Trauma

By Avigdor Klingman and Esther Cohen

Book Overview

School-Based Multisystemic Interventions for Mass Trauma presents the theoretical foundations of school-based crisis intervention, which is a systemic approach to helping the school system in an emergency.
The book offers a theory- and research-based framework to address the numerous and varied needs of student, parents, educational staff, school administration, and the mental health professionals themselves. The sections include the following: A systematic review of the theory and findings relevant to mass disasters, their impact on children, and postdisaster stress processing and positive coping; A conceptual basis for schoolwide preventive interventions; and, A comprehensive multisystemic intervention plan involving school children, school personnel, and community agencies. School-Based Multisystemic Interventions for Mass Trauma is a valuable resource for school psychologists, school mental health workers, clinical child psychologists, school counsellors, as well as for educators and school administrators.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306480662
• ISBN13: 9780306480669
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 233 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.9" x 9.7"