Rocky Mountain Region Disaster Mental Health Conference

Rocky Mountain Region Disaster Mental Health Conference Proceedings

February 11-14, 1999
Laramie, Wyoming

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

George W. Doherty
Conference Chair
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The following pages contain an overview of the contents of the 1999 Rocky Mountain
Region Disaster Mental Health Conference. The Conference took place at the School of
Extended Studies on the campus of the University of Wyoming from February 11-14, 1999.
Well over 180 attendees took part from 21 states, Washington, D.C., and four foreign
countries.

The Conference Proceedings are broken down by day. Each day of the Conference had a
different general focus. The Proceedings for each day can be accessed through the
links listed below. If you wish to make comments about or discuss the content of any
of the presentations, there is a place at the end of each presentation summary where
you can send an email message with your comments. These will be posted in the area
following the presentation summary you are commenting on for others to read.

There are links for further information about each presenter. All links appear in
dark blue within the text. For those presenters who have provided a list of
references, there are links to those references following the summaries of each
presentation.

There is also a "Link Page". On this page, you will find links to various Disaster
Mental Health Resources provided by presenters and other attendees at the Conference.
It will be updated as more information is forwarded.

Email addresses are provided for each of the presenters who have provided them.
These will be found next to their names above the summaries for their presentations.
You can click on them and send a message to them directly.

For those who wish to receive copies of the handouts for the Conference presentations,
these can be ordered by paying for the costs of reproduction plus the cost of postage
and handling. There is a link below for further information about how you can do this.

At the bottom of this page, there is a section where you can submit general comments
and discussion about the conference. Please feel free to comment on the usefulness,
need and recommendations for continuation and future conferences.

The results of the Conference Evaluations are available.

Please take a few moments to complete the Post-Conference Survey. This is important as
it will provide information about the efficacy of having this conference continue in the
future as well as input about other Disaster Mental Health related Educational, Training
and Research ideas.

Please visit the Disaster Video Documentary Store It contains links to a number of
Disaster-related Documentary videos which you can purchase online. These could serve
as educational tools as well as documenting historical disasters. A percentage commission
helps support the Rocky Mountain Region Disaster Mental Health Conference.

Finally, below the Comments and Discussion section is a Search Engine where you can
search for disaster-related or any other books by title, subject, or author. You can order
them online through Amazon.com. By ordering and purchasing them here online, you also
support the efforts of the Rocky Mountain Region Disaster Mental Health Conference as
5-10% commission on all sales through this site are sent here. Please also visit the
Disaster Mental Health and the Traumatology Bookstores to review some suggested titles.

DAY 1
Debriefing/Defusing, Mass Casualty And Airline Disasters

Psychological Debriefing and Evidence-based Practice

The Poetry of Recovery

Bridging The Gap - The Crisis Response Network

Acute Psychological Intervention Following Traumatic Stressors: Empirical Findings

Mass Casualty and Airline Disasters

DAY 2
Terrorism, Disaster Mental Health And PTSD

Terrorism and Disaster Mental Health

Surviving Disaster: What We Can Learn From Elderly Civilians' Surprisingly Successful
Coping With Missile Attack

Mowrer's Two Factor Model: Applications To Disaster Mental Health Services

PTSD and Chronic Suicidal Ideation

Mental Health Intervention In Mass Casualty Disasters