Citation

Ozbay F, Auf der Heyde T, Reissman D, Sharma V. Psychiatr. Clin. North Am. 2013; 36(3): 417-429.

Affiliation

The WTC Mental Health Program, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA; Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA; Department of Preventive Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA. Electronic address: fatih.ozbay@mssm.edu.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2013, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.psc.2013.05.011

PMID

23954056

Abstract

The authors review the existing literature on the mental health impact of the September 11th attacks and the implications for disaster mental health clinicians and policy makers. The authors discuss the demographic characteristics of those affected and the state of mental health needs and existing mental health delivery services; the nature of the disaster and primary impacts on lives, infrastructure, and socioeconomic factors; the acute aftermath in the days and weeks after the attacks; the persistent mental health impact and evolution of services of the postacute aftermath; and the implications for future disaster mental health practitioners and policy makers.

Language: en