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Coping with the 9.11.01 Aftermath

9.11 Coping Strategies 

Dealing with Your Distress

Coping.org is committed to providing strategies of coping for all aspects of life. For this reason this Tribute Page will be a growing memorial to the Victims of September 11, 2001, because we will be cataloguing suggestions, tips, insights, strategies, or intervention protocols to use with people of all ages who are suffering or who will be suffering emotionally related problems in the aftermath of this national disaster.

Content:

• Specific Coping Strategies

• Helpful Organizations

• Internet Articles on Coping since 9.11

Specific Coping Strategies

• Why We are Doing What We are Doing - A psychological perspective on Americans response to the distress of the aftermath of 9.11.01: from coping.org

• Tools for Handling Loss from coping.org

  • A Bibliography of Ordinary Heroes

• Coping with the Stress of the Terrorist Attacks Researchers at Stanford University are asking people from throughout the world to participate in an Internet study to assess the psychological impact of the terrorist attacks of September 11.(http://coping.stanford.edu)

• PTSD from the Mental Health Information Progress Newsletter

• Effects of Traumatic Stress in a Disaster Situation A National Center for PTSD Fact Sheet
• Expert Consensus Treatment Guidelines for Posttraumatic a PDF file for downloading

• Coping With Disaster a PDF file from Mental Health Workers without Borders

• Disaster Mental Health Services- A Guidebook for Clinicians and Administrators PDF file from FEMA

• Trauma Information Pages from David Baldwin

• September 11, 2001: Ways to Help from Ball State University

• Acute Stress Disorder from Internet Mental Health

• Coming to terms with grief and loss Can skills for dealing with bereavement be learned? from Post Graduate Medicine

Helpful Organizations

• Aircraft Casualty Emotional Support Services

• Gift From Within PTSD resources for survivors and caregivers

• GriefNet aids people working through loss and grief issues of all kinds

• Time for Reassurance from the National Mental Health Association which also offers tips on coping with this tragedy for people of all ages.
  • Children
  • Adults
  • Coping with Loss
  • PTSD Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
• Healing 9.11 through Community an effort to reach out across diverse lines to assist in healing process

Internet Articles on Coping since 9.11

• WebMD Health

  • Depression

  • Should America Prepare for a Mental-Health Crisis? Expert Says Terror Strikes Will Cause Millions to Need Help With PTSD October 9, 2001

  • Putting the Reins on Stress October 10, 2001

  • Americans More Fearful Than Depressed Normal Reaction to New Risks, Threats October 19. 2001

  • Panic -- The Real Enemy What the CDC Says You Should Know About Bioterror October 19, 2001

  • Reactions to Disaster Some Turn to Life-Affirming Sex; Others Deal With Loss of Libido  October 30, 2001

  • New Concerns About Flying? Experts say fears are rational, but odds of danger are still low low November 12, 2001

• Washington Post

  • Coping in the Aftermath

• New York Times

  • Some Therapists Caution that Trauma Services Could Backfire from New York Times September 16, 2001

  • Mending a Psyche from New York Times Sunday Magazine, November 11, 2001
• USA Today
  • Divorce in the era of terrorism remains  November 8, 200
• 9/11: The Psychological Aftermath from Scientific America, November 20, 2001 
• On-line Psychology Journal Examines Cause and Effects of September 11 Terrorist Attacks

   

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