I originally delivered this piece a few years ago during a disaster mental health training conducted by Disaster Psychiatry Outreach. I want to share it here. Disaster work has many dimensions, layer ...

See the text below that I read earlier this morning. Most of this is on the money in my book. I'm reading American Dunkirk: The Waterborne Evacuation of Manhattan on 9/11 by James M Kendra and Tricia ...

I’ve been thinking about the meaning of disaster. As I write this the reports of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan are flooding the news (an admittedly unfortunate metaphor). I woke up to the news ...

Disaster preparedness refers to the proactive measures taken to anticipate, respond to, and recover from emergencies, particularly those resulting from natural disasters. This text is only intended to ...