Hurricanes and Mental Health

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Dass-Brailsford P. (Ed.). (2010). Crisis and disaster counseling: Lessons learned from Hurricane Katrina and other disasters. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. doi:10.4135/9781452275093

Eastman P. (2006). Lessons learned from Hurricane Katrina. Emergency Medicine News, 28(10), 1, 36–39.

Federal Communications Commission. (2017, 9 21). Communications status report for areas impacted by Hurricane Maria. Retrieved from https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-346840A1.pdf

Gotay B. T. (2017, 6 16). Grave el cuadro de salud mental en Puerto Rico [The state of health is serious in Puerto Rico]. El Nuevo Dia. Retrieved from https://www.elnuevodia.com/noticias/locales/nota/graveelcuadrodesaludmentalenpuertorico-2281299/

Hoffpauir S. A. Woodruff L. A. (2008). Effective mental health response to catastrophic events: Lessons learned from Hurricane Katrina. Family & Community Health, 31(1), 17–22.

Kessler R. C. Galea S. Gruber M. J. Sampson N. A. Ursano R. J. Wessely S. (2008). Trends in mental illness and suicidality after Hurricane Katrina. Molecular Psychiatry, 13, 374–384.

Kilmer R. P. Gil-Rivas V. E. Tedeschi R. G. Calhoun L. G. (Eds.). (2010). Helping families and communities recover from disaster: Lessons learned from Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

La Comisión para la Prevención del Suicidio del Departamento de Salud. (2017, 12). Estadísticas Preliminares de Casos de Suicidio en Puerto Rico [Preliminary statistics of cases of suicide in Puerto Rico] . Retrieved from https://www.scribd.com/document/371280924/Suicides-in-Puerto-Rico-2000-2017#download

Rebels Latino . (2018, 2 11). Suicides in Puerto Rico increased 55% last four months of 2017, when compared to the same period in 2016. Retrieved from http://www.latinorebels.com/2018/02/11/suicides-in-puerto-rico-increased-55-last-four-months-of-2017-when-compared-to-same-time-period-in-2016/

Madrid P. A. Grant R. (2008). Meeting mental health needs following a natural disaster: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 39(1), 86–92.

National Institute of Mental Health. (2017). Mental illness. Retrieved from https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/mental-illness.shtml

Neria Y. Shultz J. M. (2012). Mental health effects of Hurricane Sandy: Characteristics, potential aftermath, and response. JAMA Journal of the American Medical Association, 308, 2571–2572.

Perez M. (2018, 2 8). 253 Puerto Ricans committed suicide in 2017. Retrieved from http://www.newsweek.com/puerto-rico-mental-health-hurricane-maria-us-798816

Ringel J. S. Chandra A. Leuschner K. Lim Y. W. Lurie N. Ricci K. A. … Wasserman J. (2007). Lessons learned from the state and local public health response to Hurricane Katrina. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation.

Scutti S. (2017, 9 20). Resilience, suffering and silver linings after a disaster. Retrieved from https://www.cnn.com/2017/09/19/health/psychological-aftermath-hurricanes-harvey-irma/index.html

Sifferlin A. Vick K. (2017, 10 4). How power outages can affect mental health. Retrieved from http://time.com/4968766/puerto-rico-hurricane-maria-power-outage/

Townsend F. F. (2006). The federal response to Hurricane Katrina: Lessons learned. Washington, DC: The White House.

Wang P. S. Gruber M. J. Powers R. E. Schoenbaum M. Speier A. H. Wells K. B. Kessler R. C. (2007). Mental health service use among Hurricane Katrina survivors in the eight months after the disaster. Psychiatric Services, 58, 1403–1411.

Weisler R. H. Barbee J. G. Townsend M. H. (2006). Mental health and recovery in the Gulf Coast after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. JAMA Journal of the American Medical Association, 296, 585–588.