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This 18 page paper considers the impact that disasters can have on those who are directly and indirectly involved, including those remote to the disaster seeing it through the media. This paper examines four recent research articles that examine the way in which stress and anxiety including posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) emerge in different section of the population. The first article looks at those who were directly effected by the September the 11th terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, the second article considers the impact of those remote to the disaster. The third article looks at the psychological adaptation of mothers where their children have been involved in a disaster, and the last considers survivors of an earth quake. These all indicate that new ways of dealing with disasters need to be develop, which are not limited to the PTSD approach. The bibliography cites 4 sources.
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File: TS14_TEdisasterptsd.rtf
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and research into post traumatic stress disorder has been well covered. However, much of the research accepts that a single tag may be insufficient for denoting the way the experiences
of the sufferers should be recognised and described should be given, and as such will then indicate the treatment that may be provided.
With increased media coverage and an increasing acceptance that disasters will have an impact on those effected indirectly, such as seeing those they love suffer, or even seeing this
through the media and suffering indirectly, either wondering about the fate of loved ones, or simply being affected by the violence they see. The entire area of stress following a
disaster needs to be reconsidered as the manifestation is not always appearing as predicted, with some distant disasters creating higher levels of stress related pathologies, whilst those directly involved in
some instances are showing lower than expected levels. The need to understand more regarding the way disasters will impact on psychological health
is being taken by many researchers. They are trying to understand the impact that disasters will on those who witness it, with a main area of study being the normative
reaction to non normative events. The impact of stress created by disasters is argued to be much wider and more complex than the traditional approach included but also one that
is misunderstood under traditional thinking. 2. September 11th survivors and the refugee model. The first article we will consider is by Rick A. Myer; Holly Moore; Tammy L. Hughes
printed in July 2003 in the Journal of Mental Health Counseling entitled September 11th survivors and the refugee model. This looks at
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