 65th Annual Conference
Thursday, February
21
Morning
Workshops
10:00 A.M.-1:15 P.M.
Workshop
20
Amid
Chaos: The Role of the Mental Health Professional
Chairs:
Dianne Kane,
DSW, CGP, Assistant Director, Counseling Service Unit NYC
Fire Department; Associate Professor,
Hunter College School of Social Work, New York, New York
Randy Lehrer, M.S.W., Professional Associate in
Psychiatry, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York
Gerald McCleery, Ph.D., Associate Executive Director,
Mental Health Association of NYC, New York, New York
In times of
disaster the world is shaken. It is human to want to respond. But
mental health professionals on the front lines of disaster have
learned from experience that an uncoordinated or inappropriate
response can do more harm than good. This workshop will examine how
the public and private sectors of the mental health community must
work together in times of crisis.
Sharing of work experiences-didactic-experiential-demonstration
Learning
Objectives:
The attendee will
be able to:
1. Define helpful
intervention in community outreach.
2. Distinguish between mental health community doing good and
effective intervention in disaster.
3. Construct a model for systems working together in disaster
preparedness.
Course References:
1. Draper J,
McCleery G and Schaedel R: Book Chapter: "Mental Health Services
Support in Response to September 11th" in
Mental Health in the Wake
of Terrorist Attacks, Neria Y, Gross R, Marshall R and Susser E (Eds)
Cambridge University Press, 2006.
2. Greene, Pl, Kane, D., Christ, Gl, Lynch, S., Corrigan,M. (2006):
FDNY Crisis Counseling: Innovative Responses to 9/11 Firefighters,
Families, and Communities, New York, Wiley.
3. Halpern, James, Tramontin, Mary:
Disaster Mental Health: Theory
and Practice, Tomson, Brooks/Cole, 2007.
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