Mitch Ruffolo
This book presents a detailed account on challenges posed by post traumatic stress disorders and strategies to deal with them. The major challenges faced by a healthcare or social service provider when asked to help someone who has experienced terror because of a hostage taker, a furious and abusive parent or spouse, or has gone through an earthquake, accident, hurricane, landslide or any other natural calamity would be of dealing with their behavioral pattern and approach required for their management, such as the primary response of the person and the most urgent need of the individual requiring care. All those people have experienced these terrors suffer significant psychological injury. This book provides with some answers to meet the needs of healthcare and social service providers in all situations, be it at a warfront, natural disaster site, or in a hospital emergency room. The important message offered herein is that after providing emergency care, there is always an urgent need to provide mental healthcare to all victims of traumatic stress. 3
