The Trauma of Terrorism: Sharing Knowledge and Shared Care, an International Handbook Book

About the Contributors
Acknowledgments
FOREWORD
Terrorism: The United Nations and the Search for Shared Solutions (David Malone)

INTRODUCTION
The Trauma of Terrorism: Contextual Considerations (Yael Danieli, Danny Brom, and Joe Sills)

SECTION I: THE ORIGINS OF TERRORISM IN MODERN SOCIETY
The Origins and Nature of Terrorism: Foundations and Issues (Anthony J. Marsella and Fathali M. Moghaddam)
Terrorism as a Strategy of Psychological Warfare (Boaz Ganor)
Tales from the Underground (Gerald Cromer)
Aum Shinrikyo: The Threshold Crossed (Robert Jay Lifton)
Voice: Murdered Twin Buddhas and Annihilated Twin Towers: Traumatized Civilization (Hirad Abtahi)
Tactical and Strategic Terrorism (Giandomenico Picco)
Voice: Do They Kill for Their Mothers? (Joyce M. Davis)
Voice: Palestinian Voices
Voice: Remembrance Day/Independence Day (Martin Herskovitz)
Voice: Terrorism Poem

SECTION II: THE PSYCHOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF TERRORISM
Adults in the United States
Voice: Grounded on Sept. 11 (David Handschuh)
Psychological Impact of the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks: Summary of Empirical Findings in Adults (William E. Schlenger)
Television Watching and Mental Health in the General Population of New York City After September 11 (Jennifer Ahern, Sandro Galea, Heidi Resnick, and David Vlahov)
Voice: Too Close to Ever Forget (Adam Lisberg)
Exploring the Myths of Coping with a National Trauma: A Longitudinal Study of Responses to the September 11th Terrorist Attacks (Roxane Cohen Silver, Michael Poulin, E. Alison Holman, Daniel N. McIntosh, Virginia Gil-Rivas, and Judith Pizarro)
Somatization and Terrorism (Carol S. North)

FINDINGS FROM AROUND THE WORLD
Short- and Long-Term Effects of Terrorist Attacks in Spain (Enrique Baca, Enrique Baca-García, María Mercedes Pérez-Rodríguez, and Maria Luisa Cabanas)
Voice: Spain: The ETA Enigma (Al Goodman)
Northern Ireland: The Psychological Impact of "The Troubles" (Andrea Campbell, Ed Cairns, and John Mallett)
Voice: Brave Little Man (Tony Maddox)
Voice: "So What Is It Like Now That Your Country Is Run by a Terrorist?" (Brandon Hamber)
The Long-Term Effects of Terrorism in France (Louis Jehel and Alain Brunet)
Psychological Effects of Terrorist Attacks in Algeria (Noureddine Khaled)
Voice: Nadia, a Victim/Survivor of a Terrorist Massacre of Her Family in Algeria (Noureddine Khaled)
Short- and Long-Term Effects on the Victims of Terror in Sri Lanka (Daya Somasundaram)
Voice: Sri Lanka: The Destruction of South Asia s Most Developed Society (Barbara Crossette)
Observations on the Impact on Kenyans of the August 7, 1998 Bombing of the United States Embassy in Nairobi (Samuel B. Thielman)
Voice: We Are Asked to Do Anything and Everything Except Be Victims (Lee Ann Ross)
Terror and Trauma in Bali: Australia s Mental Health Disaster Response (Beverley Raphael, Julie Dunsmore, and Sally Wooding)
Voice: Memories of Bali (Alan Atkinson)
Voice: A Baptism of Fire in Bali (Bill McNeil)
International Findings on the Impact of Terrorism (Brian Engdahl)
Traumatic Loss, Complicated Grief, and Terrorism (Ilona L. Pivar and Holly G. Prigerson)
Voice: Theo Was on Pan Am 103 (Susan Cohen and Daniel Cohen)
Voice: When You Are Alone, It Is Different (Conny Mus)
The Psychological Burden of Bioterrorism (Molly J. Hall, Ann E. Norwood, Carol S. Fullerton, Robert Gifford, and Robert J. Ursano)

CHILDREN

Psychological Impact of Terrorism on Children and Families in the United States (Betty J. Pfefferbaum, Ellen R. DeVoe, Jennifer Stuber, Miriam Schiff, Tovah P. Klein, and Gerry Fairbrother)
Voice: I Don t Want to Go to Any More Funerals of Eight Year Olds (Clyde Haberman)
The Immediate Psychological Consequences of Terror Attacks in Children (Esti Galili-Weisstub and Fortu Benarroch)
Post-Traumatic Distress in Israeli Adolescents Exposed to Ongoing Terrorism: Selected Findings from School-Based Screenings in Jerusalem and Nearby Settlements (Ruth Pat-Horenczyk)
Voice: Koby s Death (Sherry Mandell)
In the Shadow of Terror: Changes in World Assumptions in Israeli Youth (Zahava Solomon and Avital Laufer)

SECTION III: THE IMPACT OF TERRORISM ON INDIVIDUALS, GROUPS AND SOCIETY
Terrorism s Toll on Civil Liberties (Nadine Strossen)
The Theater of Terror: The Psychology of Terrorism and the Mass Media (Gabriel Weimann)
Guide: Media Guidelines: From the "Trauma Vortex" to the "Healing Vortex" (Gina Ross)
Voice: Wrong Place at the Wrong Time (Chris Cramer)
Cultural Issues in Terrorism and in Response to Terrorism (Kathleen Nader and Yael Danieli)
Some of the Effects of Terrorism on Refugees (J. David Kinzie)
Voice: The Effects of Terror on Ethiopian Israelis: What I Have Left (Micha Feldmann)

SECTION IV: PSYCHOLOGICAL FIRST AID, ACUTE AND LONG-TERM TREATMENT FOLLOWING TERRORIST ATTACKS
Mental Health Interventions in a General Hospital Following Terrorist Attacks: The Israeli Experience (Ilan Kutz and Avi Bleich)
Voice: When News Comes Close (Tali Arad)
Treating Survivors of Terrorism While Adversity Continues (Rhonda S. Adessky and Sara A. Freedman)
The Treatment of Children Impacted by the World Trade Center Attack (Sandra J. Kaplan, David Pelcovitz, and Victor Fornari)
Terror, Trauma, and Bereavement: Implications for Theory and Therapy (Ruth Malkinson, Simon Shimshon Rubin, and Eliezer Witztum)
Voice: Elizabeth Neuffer: In Memoriam (Peter S. Canellos)
Voice: In Memoriam: Daniel Pearl (Tamara Pearl)

SECTION V: SCHOOL- AND COMMUNITY-BASED INTERVENTIONS IN THE FACE OF TERRORIST ATTACKS
Building Resilience: A School-Based Intervention for Children Exposed to Ongoing Trauma and Stress (Naomi L. Baum)
Community-Based Interventions in New York City After 9/11: A Provider s Perspective (Jonas Waizer, Amy Dorin, Ellen Stoller, and Roy Laird)
An Ecological Community-Based Approach for Dealing with Traumatic Stress: A Case of Terror Attack on a Kibbutz (Rony Berger)

SECTION VI: A MULTICOMPONENT MODEL OF PREPARING PROVIDERS IN COMMUNITIES AFFECTED BY TERRORISM
Toward a Public Mental Health Approach for Survivors of Terrorism (Matthew J. Friedman)
The Primary Care Health System as a Core Resource in Response to Terrorism (Margaret Heldring and Harold Kudler)
Identification and Follow-Up by Primary Care Doctors of Children with PTSD After Terrorist Attacks (Moshe Vardi)
Religious Care in Coping with Terrorism (Zahara Davidowitz-Farkas and John Hutchison-Hall)
Responding to Terrorism in the USA: Firefighters Share Experiences in Their Own Words (John K. Schorr and Angela S. Boudreaux)
Guide: Caring for Public Servants (Dodie Gill)
Coping with the Aftermath of Terror Resilience of ZAKA Body Handlers (Zahava Solomon and Rony Berger)
Voice: Ten Years Later? (Deena Yellin)
Training and Mobilizing Volunteers for Emergency Response and Long-Term Support (Eleanor Pardess)
Volunteers in Disaster Response: The American Red Cross (Susan E. Hamilton)
Training Therapists to Treat the Psychological Consequences of Terrorism: Disseminating Psychotherapy Research and Researching Psychotherapy Dissemination (Lawrence V. Amsel, Yuval Neria, Randall D. Marshall, and Eun Jung Suh)
Provider Perspectives on Disaster Mental Health Services in Oklahoma City (Fran H. Norris, Patricia J. Watson, Jessica L. Hamblen, and Betty J. Pfefferbaum)
Guide: Some Principles of Self Care (Yael Danieli)

SECTION VII: INDIVIDUAL AND COMMUNITY PREPAREDNESS: NEW METHODS OF MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
Terrorism: The Community Perspective (Mooli Lahad)
Community Mental Health in Emergencies and Mass Disasters: The Tel Aviv Model (Nathaniel Laor, Zeev Wiener, Smadar Spirman, and Leo Wolmer)
Challenges of Urban Mental Health Disaster Planning (Lloyd I. Sederer, Kelly L. Ryan, Kimberly B. Gill, and Joshua F. Rubin)
Integrating Behavioral Aspects into Community Preparedness and Response Systems (Dori B. Reissman, Shauna Spencer, Terri L. Tanielian, and Bradley D. Stein)
Finding the Gift in the Horror: Toward Developing a National Psychosocial Security Policy (Claude M. Chemtob)
The Need for a Continuum of Trauma Services: Who Feeds the Birds? (Talia Levanon, Elisheva Flamm-Oren, and Gilah Kahn-Hoffmann)
Voice: Right After the Bomb Went Off (Danny Brom)
Mental Health Services Preparing for the Psychological Consequences of Terrorism (Bella Ben-Gershon, Alexander Grinshpoon, and Alexander Ponizovsky)
Mental Health Response to Terrorism in the United States: An Adolescent Field in an Adolescent Nation (Brian W. Flynn)
Guide: Building Bi-National Collaboration in the Face of Terrorism (Shelley Horwitz, Roberta Leiner, Danny Brom, and Claude M. Chemtob)
Voice: Assault on the United Nations: Baghdad, 19 August 2003 (Martin Barber)

CONCLUSION
Sharing Knowledge and Shared Care (Yael Danieli, Danny Brom, and Joe Sills)
Epilogue (Sir Jeremy Greenstock)
Index