Helpful reading

This page is intended to provide a selection of useful articles that may be of help to those dealing with people affected by trauma.

Leaflets from the Royal College of Psychiatrists

• Coping with Stress : what young people need to know .
• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) leaflet for anyone who is worried about themselves, a friend or relative.
• Worries and anxieties - helping children to cope : what parents and teachers need to know.

Other resources

• Mental and social health during and after acute emergencies: emerging consensus?  
  Bulletin of the WHO, January 2005

• Mental health in emergencies  
  Department of Mental Health and Substance Dependence, World Health Organization, Geneva 2003

• Disaster and Mental Health  
  World Psychiatry, official journal of WPA, October 2002

• Psychological Support in Events of Mass Destruction  
  Economic and Political Weekly, May 2004

• Custodial psychiatric hospitals in conflict situations  
  World Health Organisation, Geneva, May 2003

• Helping Children After a Disaster - American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Facts for Families leaflets  
  You can find further factsheets on the AACAP website

• Preventing suicide - a resource for teachers and other school staff  
  World Health Organisation, Geneva, 2000

• Lone Psychiatrist Works to Ease Mental Devastation  
  Washington Post

• Caring for your own emotional well-being  
  Guidelines for relief workers issued by the WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia in New Delhi

• Manual for community level workers to provide psychosocial care to communities affected by the tsunami disaster  
  Issued by the WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia in New Delhi, January 2005