Research and Education in Disaster Mental Health :: Instructive Materials :: Media

Instructional Materials :: DVD of Expert Researcher Interviews

What is it?

The Experience of Disaster Research DVD was developed to augment written educational materials with "virtual mentoring." This mentoring consists of an integrated series of interviews designed to take a closer look at the process of conducting disaster research from the perspective of a diverse panel of experts who represent a range of disciplinary perspectives, research skills, cultural understandings, and real-world experiences.

Experts were interviewed about the process of conducting disaster research, lessons learned, their views on the field of disaster mental health, and advice they would offer to new researchers. Their areas of expertise include epidemiology, service provision, longitudinal course of recovery, working with special populations such as emergency services and children, and social support research.

What is it for?

The DVD is part of a collection of materials that can be used alone or in combination for a seminar in disaster mental health /public health research.

The DVD can be obtained by emailing redmh@redmh.org.

It can be used as to supplement the textbook: Research Methods for Studying Mental Health after Disasters and Terrorism: Community and Public Health Approaches

Who are the experts?

The researchers interviewed in the series are listed below, along with their specialty areas discussed in the interviews:

Bromet, Evelyn, PhD (Epidemiology, Public Health). Psychiatric epidemiology, technological disaster, mothers and children, sampling and fieldwork procedures for face-to-face data collection.

Galea, Sandro, MD, DPH (Medicine, Epidemiology). Population based studies, novel analytic methods, terrorism, sampling & design of telephone surveys.

Jones, Russell, PhD (Clinical Psychology). Children and their families, fire.

Kaniasty, Krzysztof, PhD (Social Psychology). Social support, community functioning.

McFarlane, Alexander, M.D. (Psychiatry, Epidemiology). Improving clinical services for traumatized populations following disasters.

Norris, Fran, Ph.D. (Community psychology). Longitudinal course of trauma recovery following disasters, community functioning and social support, cross-cultural studies.

Shalev, Arik, M.D. (Psychiatry). Acute interventions following terrorism, he impact of terrorism and prolonged adversity on communities and individuals, and the cause and risk factors related to PTSD.