Journal
of The National Institute for Trauma and Loss in Children
Trauma and Loss: Research and Interventions
Volume 5, Number 2, 2006
ISSN 1930-2851
SPECIAL EDITION
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Editorial
from the Director
William Steele, PsyD, MSW
The hurricanes of 2005 presented many challenges and lessons to be learned. Compassion fatigue and secondary traumatization among helpers was significant ...continued
Editorial
from the Editor
Cathy Malchiodi, LPAT, LPC
Welcome to the first online issue of Trauma and Loss: Research and Intervention! This new format of the journal includes all the usual features of past journals — articles, news briefs, commentaries, resources, letters, and reviews ...continued
Hurricane
Rita: A Daily Journal
Barb Dorrington
Hurricane Rita arrived during the early morning hours of September 24th, 2005 and I arrived in San Antonio, TX the morning of September 26th, 2005. It was here that I joined my friend and colleague, Barb Desjardins ...continued
A
Hurricane Story
Cheryl Sawyer
I’m a counselor, a mother of 2 teenagers, and I have lived on the Gulf Coast nearly all my life. I work with kids and teachers and I train people to become counselors. As I watched the Weather Channel in late August, I knew that Hurricane Katrina would be a killer ...continued
Children's
Stories from Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita
Maureen Barber, BA and Judi-Speir Crawford, MA, MSW, CSW
Judi Speir-Crawford flew down from Ann Arbor, MI, to work with Maureen Barber meet the emotional needs of the evacuees in this area. Monroe, where Maureen lives, had upwards of 4000 evacuees housed there ...continued
Letters
Norma Webb, LPC, NCC, NCSC
Thank you for the training during the first week of November. The information
and tools you provided were exceptional, practical, and very "user-friendly"
...continued
Debbie Carpenter
As a school counselor, one of our duties is to add and drop students.
We knew we would be getting a few Katrina students ...continued
Kathleen Witkowski
I'm sending two letters from my nieces who live in Port St. Lucie, FL.
As you may recall they experienced four major hurricanes ...continued
Barb Desjardins
I returned yesterday from spending a week in San Antonio, working in the
Baptist Child & Family Services shelters ...continued
Cheryl Sawyer
Obviously, the lessons learned from Rita and Katrina indicate
that we need a new evacuation game plan ...continued
Victoria Williams
I met a young man who had been evacuated from New Orleans
while I was working at Reunion Arena ...continued
Silver Linings Hurricane Katrina Newsbrief
In the weeks following Hurricane Katrina, approximately 186,500 students in the public school system and 27,800 private school students were displaced ...continued
Shortly following hurricane Katrina, Thomas Demaria, PhD, Assistant Vice President, Behavioral Health Services, was selected by the federal agency SAMHSA ...continued
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