Psychiatry of Pandemics : A Mental Health Response to Infection Outbreak / edited by Damir Huremović.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Huremović, Damir, editor.

SpringerLink (Online service)

Series:

Medicine (Springer-11650)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychiatry.

Emerging infectious diseases.

Emergency medicine.

Infectious Diseases.

Public Health.

Emergency Medicine.

Local Subjects:

Psychiatry.

Infectious Diseases.

Public Health.

Emergency Medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (IX, 185 pages) : 4 illustrations, 3 illustrations in color

Edition:

First edition 2019.

Contained In:

Springer eBooks

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.

System Details:

text file PDF

Summary:

This book focuses on how to formulate a mental health response to a massive infectious disease outbreak, including a pandemic outbreak. The book combines an emergency mental health response utilized by disaster psychiatry with clinical aspects and expertise on infectious diseases mental health developed by consultation-liaison psychiatry, making it an excellent resource for tackling each stage of an infectious outbreak crisis quickly and thoroughly. The book opens by contextualizing the issues with a historical overview of pandemics ranging from plagues of ancient times, through Black Death in the Middle Ages, Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, to outbreaks of modern times, including HIV, Ebola, and Zika. The text acknowledges the new infectious disease challenges presented by climate changes and bioterrorism and considers how to implement systems to prepare for these issues from an infection and social perspective. The manuscript then delves into the mental health aspects of these crises, including community and cultural responses, emotional epidemiology, and mental health concerns in the aftermath of a disaster. Finally, the text considers medical responses to situation-specific trauma, including quarantine and isolation-associated trauma, the mental health aspects of immunization and vaccination (including vaccine hesitancy), survivor mental health, and support for healthcare personnel, thereby providing guidance for some of the most alarming situations facing the medical community organizing a mental health response to an infectious outbreak. Written by experts in the field, Psychiatry of Pandemics is an excellent resource for infectious disease specialists, psychiatrists, psychologists, immunologists, hospitalists, public health officials, nurses, disaster mental health workers, and all medical professionals who may work with patients in an infectious disease outbreak.

Contents:

Historical Context

History of Plagues and Their Impact on Human Civilizations

Pandemics and Modern Medicine

Pandemics and Psychiatry

Spanish flu of 1918

Smallpox Outbreak of 1972

HIV Epidemic

SARS (2003)

Ebola Outbreak 2015

MERS

Zika Virus Outbreak

Contagion as a Psychological Concept

Emotional Epidemiology

Cultural Aspects of a Pandemic

Managing Public Perceptions and the Use of Social Media

Effect on Mental health Patients

Burden on Healthcare Personnel

Psychological Challenges for Institutions and Communities

History of Quarantine

Mental Health Challenges Associated with Quarantine and Isolation

Care for Individuals in Quarantine and Patients in Isolation

Mental Health Aspects of Immunization and Vaccination

Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy

Mental health Care for Survivors

Mental Health Care for Family Members of the Patients

Mental Health Care and Psychological Support for Healthcare Personnel.

Other Format:

Printed edition:

ISBN:

978-3-030-15346-5

9783030153465

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.