Integrating Emergency Management and Disaster Behavioral Health: One Picture through Two Lenses

Integrating Emergency Management and Disaster Behavioral Health identifies the most critical areas of integration between the profession of emergency management and the specialty of disaster behavioral health, providing perspectives from both of these critical areas, and also including very practical advice and examples on how to address key topics.

Each chapter features primary text written by a subject matter expert from a related field that is accompanied by a comment by another profession that is then illustrated with a case study of, or a suggested method for, collaboration.

Addresses the current state of the collaboration between the emergency management and disaster behavioral health communities as presented from pioneers in their respective fieldsFocuses on practical examples of what works and what doesn’tStresses both legal and ethical considerations and the public-private partnerships that are important for leadership in disaster situationsCovers Emergency Operations Centers (EOCs) and risk communication

Section I: Context 1. Where Emergency Management and Disaster Behavioral Health Meet: Through an Emergency Management Lens 2. Where Emergency Management and Disaster Behavioral Health Meet: Through a Disaster Behavioral Health Lens 3. Why Is Integrating Disaster Behavior Health Essential to Emergency Management? Challenges and Opportunities 4. Why Is Integrating Emergency Management Essential to Disaster Behavioral Health? Challenges and Opportunities

Section II: Key Areas of Integration 5. Integration in Disasters of Different Types, Severity, and Location 6. Not All Disasters Are the Same: Understanding Similarities and Differences 7. What Can DBH Actually Do To Make Emergency Managers Jobs Easier? 8. Expanding the Tent: How Training and Education Partnerships with Other Professions Can Enhance Both EM and BH 9. Linking with Private Sector Business and Industry

Section III: Special Opportunities to Enhance Integration 10. Integration in the Emergency Operations Center (EOC)/Emergency Communications Center (ECC) 11. Risk and Crisis Communications 12. How to Navigate External Factors: Legal, Ethical, and Political Issues 13. Sustaining Integration: A Way Forward 14. Conclusion/Summary