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Mental Health: Coping with a National Tragedy, Chemical or Biological Terrorism

In The Spotlight:

• Responding to Traumatic Events: Fleet and Family Support Center Division, Bureau of Navy Personal.
• Human Behavior and WMD Crisis / Risk Communication Workshop, March 2001 report from DTRA, FBI, and US Joint Forces Command 
• Coping with a National Tragedy, American Psychiatric Association, coping resources for helping children, students, care providers, etc.
• New Study Offers Insight to Why Many are Having Trouble with Concentration and Normalcy after Terrorist Attack, summary by American Psychological Association
• Psychological Effects of Chemical and Biological (CB) Terrorism: Lessons from the Past, paper presented at the World Congress on Chemical and Biological Terrorism, April 2001 -- includes discussion of trauma effects on the targeted population
• Coping with Disaster, National Mental Health Association
• Disaster Mental Health: Dealing with the Aftereffects of Terrorism, National Center for PTSD
• Coping with a National Tragedy, National Association of School Psychologists
• Terrorism and Children, Purdue U.
• Terrorism and Children, National Center for PTSD, includes symptoms of trauma in various age groups