Roles of psychiatrists on multidisciplinary mental health disaster teams.
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The first example is the training of community professionals. After the Great Midwestern Flood of 1993, Dr. Carol North, a psychiatrist and disaster researcher, in collaboration with the St. Louis Mental Health Association, the American Red Cross, and the Eastern Missouri Psychiatric Society, organized a crash course to train 250 local area mental health professionals in disaster work and established pro Full Text (PDF) Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Psychiatric services
دوره 52 4 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2001