Responding to the Needs of People With Serious and Persistent Mental Illness in Times of Major Disaster

Provides a brief guide for State & local mental health agency administrators & 5 detailed chapters for program planners & providers of direct services. Chapters: introduction to crisis counseling programs & services to persons with serious & persistent mental illness; the state mental health authority's role in disaster response operations; local mental health authority's role in disaster services for people with psychiatric disabilities; mental health disaster services for psychiatrically disabled individuals; crisis counseling services for disaster survivors with mental illness; & disaster response in a psychosocial rehabilitation program -- a hurricane tolerance test of structure, philosophy, & methodology.Flynn, Brian W. is the author of 'Responding to the Needs of People With Serious and Persistent Mental Illness in Times of Major Disaster' with ISBN 9780756725990 and ISBN 0756725992.