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Major Incidents, Pandemics and Mental Health The Scope of This Book
from Section 1 - The Nature and Impacts of Twenty-First-Century Healthcare Emergencies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 January 2024
This book is about some of the psychosocial aspects of emergencies, incidents, disasters, and disease outbreaks.
My clinical and academic engagement with the mental health consequences of, and responding to emergencies and disasters began when the Herald of Free Enterprise capsized in Zeebrugge Harbour on 6 March 1987, causing the deaths of 193 passengers and crew. Many more people survived; some were injured, and the impacts on the mental health of the survivors became a major long-term issue. I learned a huge amount from patients who were referred to me. This incident occurred relatively soon after the American Psychiatric Association had first included post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) in 1980. There have been huge developments in science and practice relating to the mental health aspects of disasters in the 37 years that have elapsed since the Zeebrugge ferry tragedy.
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