Mick Maurer in Bryant Park 2006
Chapters:
Table of Contents:
Introduction

Part I: Types of Disasters and the Impact on Communities
Chapter 1: Geophysical Events (earthquakes, tsunamis, volcano
eruptions)
Chapter 2: Weather-Related Disasters (hurricanes, cyclones,
floods, wildfires and tornadoes)
Chapter 3: Human-Generated Disasters (industrial accidents,
aviation, building failures, fire, technological breakdowns).
Chapter 4: Public Health Emergencies: Communicable Disease
and Disease Control
Chapter 5: Environmental Health and Food Supply Events
Chapter 6: Terrorism, Bioterrorism and Biowarfare

Part II: Social Elements and Specific Groups Post Disaster
Chapter 7: Political and Sociological Climate
Chapter 8: Women and Children
Chapter 9: The Elderly
Chapter 10: People with Disabilities
Chapter 11: Race/Ethnicity and Poverty Issues
Chapter 12: Immigrants, Refugees and People in Temporary
Residence (treatment centers, orphanages, etc)

Part III: Guiding Human Behavior
Chapter 13: Understanding Disaster Warnings and Public
Response
Chapter 14: Community Evacuation Behavior
Chapter 15: Demobilization and Return
Chapter 16: Critical Incident Debriefing to Spur Resilience
Chapter 17: Other Trends in Post-Disaster Management
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Author:  Michael T. Maurer is a crisis management expert, an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Applied Psychology at the Steinhardt
School of Education at New York University and Founder as well as first Director of the Metropolitan College of New York’s Master of
Public Administration in Emergency & Disaster Management degree program established in the wake of 9/11. He has served as
Director of Research for MCNY’s Institute for Homeland Preparedness and Disaster Management. A veteran of the Army, he
trained as a medic and behavioral science specialist at the U.S. Army Academy of Health Sciences, Brooke Army Medical Center,
the US Army Medical Center at Okinawa and Johns Hopkins University.  

Keynote: Explains the psychological and social impact that disasters have on groups and communities, with a concentration on
how this understanding can be translated to policies and programs to meet their needs and encourage resilience.  

Brief Description: Recent disasters ranging from the terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers to the Indian Ocean Tsunami and
Hurricane Katrina left communities devastated, with some seeming to recover and suffer less traumatic stress than others. In this
volume, an applied psychologist examines the social and psychological effects of disasters on communities, and identifies
programs and policies that spurred resilience, or slowed recovery. Maurer explains how individual differences in values and coping
styles work for or against both the individual and the greater community in the aftermath of tragedy, then he points out what can
be done by leaders to enable and inspire recovery for the community.

Actions in the aftermath of disasters from the 1985 Mexico City earthquake and the Nevado del Ruiz Volcano eruption in
Columbia that same year to the 2005 Kasmir Eathquake and Hurricane Katrina are examined. Management techniques by
community leaders and volunteers, including Critical Incident Stress Debriefing, is described, as well as other means that have
proven to help communities define, plan for and manage the aftermath of disaster.

Length: 195 pages (70,000 words)                        

MS Due Date:        June 30, 2007

Series: Disaster and Trauma Psychology with Gil Reyes
Dr. Maurer is currently writing for Praeger Press  

Managing the Aftermath of Disaster: Reducing the Social and              
                Psychological Impact on Communities   

As a title in the Praeger Series Disaster Trauma Psychology  for which Gil Reyes serves as Series Editor.
Scheduled for release in late 2009.
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Darrell Franken, Ph.D. in the textbook, PERSONAL STRENGTHS: Positive Psycholgy, notes:

"Music has the potential of inducing an experience quite like that of either satisfaction or fulfillment. The particular intensity of the
fulfillment experience may be linked to the type of music, the age of the listener, the frequency with which a person listens to a particular
composition or rendition.

Five researcher participants were interviewed in a structured manner in an attempt to obtain some ideas about what music can do for that
which we see as either a peak experience or fulfillment or both. Kyle F. Walsh (2001), from the Union Institute, and those five
participants, collectively singled out the  'awe-inspiring-ness of the performances' as related to Maslow’s Peak Experience."
Kyle F. Walsh, MA (now Ph.D.) was a
student of mine at Holy Ghost Prep.  

Dr. Walsh also attended the Philadelphia
School for  Psychoanalysis, and
gave me the honor of serving on his
doctoral thesis defense committee
for Union Institute in 2001.
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