Daily Archives: 16 Sep 01

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Some Therapists Caution That Trauma Services Could Backfire: “…(I)n an open letter to their colleagues distributed this weekend, a group of psychologists questioned whether the ministrations of a therapist are what all people want or need now, at a time when stress, fear, anger, uncertainty and grief are entirely normal, and when the full impact of what has happened has not yet sunk in. And they cautioned that thrusting help on people instead of letting them seek it themselves might in some case do more harm than good.” New York Times


Other psychological dimensions of response, courtesy of Phil Agre:

  • <a href=”http://www.globe.com/dailyglobe2/256/nation/A_widely_shared_loss_leaves_few_unmarked+.shtml

    “>psychological response to the attacks in Boston <

  • Disaster Mental Health Guidebook

  • Training Manual for Mental Health and Human Service Workers in Major Disasters

  • Helping Children Cope with Disasters and Trauma (video)

  • Primary Care Treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: The Burden to the Individual and to Society

  • Comorbidity of Psychiatric Disorders and PTSD

  • Advice on Communicating with Children about Disasters

  • Law Enforcement Traumatic Stress

  • Psychiatric Dimensions of Disaster

  • National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

  • The Child Survivor of Traumatic Stress

  • Recovering From Disasters and Other Traumatic Events

  • information on bereavement

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    A letter from Eason Jordan, Chief News Executive, CNN, to Jim Romenesko’s Media News:

    The suggestion that CNN used 10-year-old images to illustrate Palestinians celebrating the terrorist strikes in the U.S. [which I mention below –FmH] is baseless and ridiculous. The videotape was, in fact, shot Tuesday in East Jerusalem by a Reuters TV crew and included comments from a Palestinian praising Osama Bin Laden, who was not a Gulf War player. The more interesting story — it has the added value of being true — is that Palestinian officials have threatened journalists for taking pictures of these Palestinian celebrations.

    Romanesko’s letters column is also full of outraged responses to Salon’s June 12, 2000 lampooning of the recent report from the National Commission on Terrorism on the threat of terrorist attacks on U.S. soil. Other useful comments on media coverage of Tuesday’s events and their aftermath.

    Thanks to readers who pointed me to the information on the Palestinian issue. At any time, but especially this time, our emotional reactivity can’t be allowed to swamp the need for sober assessment of the information…

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    As usual, look to Ethel for further enlightenment. Among much, the following:

  • links decrying the theory that a failure of “humint” (human intelligence) is to blame

  • reports of warnings ignored

  • HL Mencken on the value of peaceful dissent and the peril of suppressing it

  • protest from the right about civil liberties implications of antiterrorist crackdown

  • extraordinary claim, via Counterpunch, that the supposed footage of Palestinians rejoicing in the streets which has further inflamed American sentiments after Tuesday’s attacks are, in fact, from 1991 events

  • cynical reaction to the Sierra Club’s duck-and-cover response

    • Other places that have consistently challenged and deepened this week: Random Walks and wood s lot.

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    9 Failures of the Imagination “Six: Dear reader, two Sundays in the future: you know vastly more than I do about what I mean when I say war. Do you envy me, living in this before, this last shred of relative innocence? I hope not. I hope I ought to envy you, the wild sweet peace you enjoy, the simultaneous epiphany of universal human amity and accord, the melting of all world guns into memorial sculpture which took place on, say, Sept. 16, the miracle that occurred in place of the carnage I?m dreading today. Oh, I hope I ought to envy you; I hope I?m a moron.” New York Times Magazine

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    Maureen Dowd: The Modernity of Evil: “Mr. Bush has promised nothing short of wiping out terrorism. But first the

    young president, who often seems trapped in the past, must come to grips

    with the modernity of evil.” New York Times

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    Pakistan’s Antiterror Support Avoids Vow of Military Aid — ‘President Pervez Musharraf fears a violent backlash in Pakistan if he

    follows Saudi Arabia’s example after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in

    1990 and allows American troops free rein on his territory, officials said.

    He also faces the prospect of a direct confrontation with the Taliban, who

    harbor the terrorist suspect Osama bin Laden and who today threatened

    “a massive attack” by its Islamic warriors if Pakistan offers the United

    States any assistance.’ New York Times

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    Pakistan to Demand bin Laden: “A delegation

    of senior Pakistani officials will go to

    Afghanistan on Monday to demand that

    the ruling Taliban militia hand over Osama

    bin Laden to the United States, a top government official said Sunday.” New York Times