Trauma Resources

Updated 25 January 2006

Below is a list of resources regarding help for the mental and emotional effects of trauma caused by hurricanes.

• American Psychiatric Association - Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
• American Psychiatric Association - Storm Disasters
• Boston Area Liberation Medic (BALM) Squad - Critical Incident Stress Debriefing
• Global Trauma Consultants
• Healing Trauma
• International Critical Stress Foundation, Inc.
• National Center for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
• National Center for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: Facts About PTSD
• Support for Healing from Trauma
• Trauma Resources

Books
Available at your local, independent bookseller or infoshop.

* Common Shock: Witnessing Violence Every Day, How We Are Harmed, How We Can Heal by Kaethe Weingarten
* Coping With Trauma: A Guide to Self Understanding by Jon Allen
* Effects of and Interventions for Childhood Trauma from Infancy to Adolescence: Pain Unspeakable by Sandra B. Hutchison
* Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence From Domestic Abuse To Political Terror by Judith Herman
* Waking the Tiger : Healing Trauma: The Innate Capacity to Transform Overwhelming Experiences by Peter A. Levine and Ann Frederick