School-based multi-systemic interventions for mass trauma / Avigdor Klingman and Esther Cohen.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-220) and index.

Foreword / Laura Barbanel -- Pt. I. Theoretical and empirical background on mass disasters, stress responses, and positive responding -- 1. The events triggering this book -- 2. Our preliminary assumptions -- 3. impact of context, personal factors, and recovery environment on psychological responses to disaster -- 4. Two extreme contexts for disaster : terrorist attack and unconventional weapon use -- 5. From normative postdisaster stress response to full-fledged disorder -- 6. Bereavement in the wake of traumatic death -- 7. The effects of traumatic events on the family, the parent-child relationship, and the parent-school partnership -- 8. Coping, habituation, resilience, and trauma-induced growth -- Pt. II. Multisystemic interventions in schools -- 9. The generic intervention approach and principles -- 10. Developmental, functional and cultural considerations -- 11. School-based 7-level preventive intervention model -- 12. Active, positive, and expressive activities that foster students' adaptive coping and processing -- 13. School-based preventive interventions with parents around mass trauma -- 14. Assessment and treatment of trauma-related disorders in children : a tertiary prevention perspective.