Trauma Psychology

Elizabeth K. Carll, PhD, is an internationally recognized psychologist in private practice in Long Island, New York, with a focus on stress, trauma, stress and health, and family relationships. Dr. Carll consults to organizations and corporations on crisis management, health and stress, trauma, and workplace violence. She has developed a variety of disaster intervention programs and has responded to crisis incidents including the Persian Gulf Crisis, 1993 WTC bombing, Long Island Railroad shooting, Oklahoma City bombing, TWA 800, and the 9/11 WTC disaster. She is frequently quoted by the media and is a past president of the Media Psychology Division of the American Psychological Association and chairs the Division's News Media, Public Education, Public Policy Committee. She is a United Nations representative from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies and chairs the Media/ICT Working Group of the UN NGO Committee on Mental Health.

Volume 1 Violence and Disaster
Foreword by Ambassador Laohaphan
Introduction
1. The Psychological Aftermath of Terrorism: The 2001 World Trade Center Attack
2. The Trauma of Politically Motivated Torture
3. The Psychological Impact of Kidnap
4. Workplace Violence and Psychological Trauma
5. Stalking: Prevention and Intervention
6. Killing as Trauma
7. The 2004 Madrid Terrorist Attack: Organizing Large Scale Psychological Response
8. The Psychological Effects of War on Children: A Psychosocial Approach
9. The Psychological Aftermath of Large and Small Scale Fires
10. Online Psychotrauma Intervention in the Aftermath of the Tsunami: A Community Building Effort
11. First Responders: Coping with Traumatic Events
12. Xenophobia: A Consequence of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Series Afterword
About the Advisory Board
About the Editor and the Contributors
Volume 2 Health and Illness
Foreword
Introduction
1. Motor Vehicle Accidents and Psychological Trauma
2. Traumatic Stress Responses to Medical Illness in Children and Parents
3. Trauma and the Treatment of Pain
4. Anesthesia Awareness and Trauma
5. AIDS and Trauma in the 21st Century: Implications for Prevention, Treatment, and Policy
6. Emotional Trauma following Burn Injury in Children
7. The Trauma of Spinal Cord Injury
8. Disclosure of Trauma in the Medical Setting
9. Youth Homelessness and Trauma
10. Trauma in the Lives of Homeless Families
11. Traumatic Impact of Violence Against Women
12. The Integration of Psychopharmacology and Psychotherapy in PTSD Treatment: A Biopsychosocial Model of Care
Series Afterword
About the Editor
About the Contributors
About the Advisory Board
About the series