Citation

Tucker P, Pfefferbaum B, Vincent R, Boehler SD, Nixon SJ. J. Behav. Health Serv. Res. 1998; 25(1): 93-99.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Oklahoma Health Services Center, Oklahoma City 73190, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1998, Association of Behavioral Healthcare Management, Publisher Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

9516298

Abstract

Mental health and medical administrators responded to the Oklahoma City bombing with cooperative and overlapping efforts to meet community needs in the wake of terrorism. The major agencies assisted in the immediate rescue response, organized crisis hotlines, prepared mental health professionals to counsel bereaved families and victims, organized debriefing of rescuers, assessed mental health needs of local school children, planned for longer term treatment, and coordinated research efforts to learn from the disaster. Implications to mental health administrators responding to significant acts of terrorism are discussed.

Language: en