Book contents
- Mental Health and Disasters
- Dedication
- Mental Health and Disasters
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- 1 Disaster Mental Health Research:
- Part One Concepts
- Part Two Psychopathology After Disasters
- Part Three Vulnerability And Resilience
- Part Four Special Groups
- Part Five Interventions And Health Services
- Part Six Case Studies
- 23 The Mental Health Impact of the Southeast Asia Tsunami
- 24 Advances in Our Understanding of Earthquake Trauma and Its Treatment:
- 25 Hurricane Katrina
- 26 The Long-Term Mental Health Impacts of the Chernobyl Accident
- 27 TheExxon ValdezOil Spill
- 28 Enschede Fireworks Disaster
- 29 Eyewitness to Mass Murder:
- 30 The Oklahoma City Bombing
- 31 The Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001, in New York City
- 32 The Psychological Consequences of the London Bombings
- 33 Psychological Responses to Terrorism in Israel: 2000–2004
- Part Seven Questions and Directions
- Index
29 - Eyewitness to Mass Murder:
Findings from Studies of Four Multiple Shooting Episodes
from Part Six - Case Studies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 May 2010
Book contents
- Mental Health and Disasters
- Dedication
- Mental Health and Disasters
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- 1 Disaster Mental Health Research:
- Part One Concepts
- Part Two Psychopathology After Disasters
- Part Three Vulnerability And Resilience
- Part Four Special Groups
- Part Five Interventions And Health Services
- Part Six Case Studies
- 23 The Mental Health Impact of the Southeast Asia Tsunami
- 24 Advances in Our Understanding of Earthquake Trauma and Its Treatment:
- 25 Hurricane Katrina
- 26 The Long-Term Mental Health Impacts of the Chernobyl Accident
- 27 TheExxon ValdezOil Spill
- 28 Enschede Fireworks Disaster
- 29 Eyewitness to Mass Murder:
- 30 The Oklahoma City Bombing
- 31 The Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001, in New York City
- 32 The Psychological Consequences of the London Bombings
- 33 Psychological Responses to Terrorism in Israel: 2000–2004
- Part Seven Questions and Directions
- Index
Summary
This chapter presents combined data from longitudinal research on four separate studies of mass shooting episodes conducted with consistent assessment tools and time frames. Index interviews were completed at approximately 1 month for the shooting episodes in Russelville, and Iowa City, and at approximately 2 months for the episodes in Killeen, and Clayton. Consistency of assessment tools used to assess survivors of the four shooting episodes in this report and uniformity of the timing of index assessment allowed comparison across these different events. The chapter talks about the volunteer nature of the Clayton Courthouse shooting sample, and highlights that the other three shooting samples represent a successfully selected majority of the universe of individuals known to be directly exposed to the incident. The prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) varied considerably across the four shooting incidents studied here.
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- Mental Health and Disasters , pp. 497 - 507Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009
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