Creating a Comprehensive Trauma Center : Choices and Challenges / by Mary Beth Williams, Lasse A. Nurmi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, Mary Beth, Author.

Nurmi, Lasse A., Author.

Series:

Springer Series on Stress and Coping

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Counseling.

Clinical psychology.

Psychiatry.

Public health.

Personality.

Difference (Psychology).

Counseling Psychology.

Clinical Psychology.

Public Health.

Personality and Differential Psychology.

Local Subjects:

Counseling Psychology.

Clinical Psychology.

Psychiatry.

Public Health.

Personality and Differential Psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XXII, 443 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2001.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Early Thoughts on Creating Comprehensive Trauma Centers This volume has been many years in writing. When Dr. Donald Meichenbaum first suggested it and I approached my coauthor Lasse Nurmi, it did not seem to be as formidable a task as it has become. Interviewing the centers in this book has taken years-to get responses, to summarize those responses, and to return the summaries for further comment. Many centers have been created in that time; others have suspended operation. This volume does not claim to present even a majority of those centers. However, the ones contained herein are representative of "what is out there. " The idea to create a comprehensive trauma center is not new. The initial section of this forward examines thoughts I proposed as part of my compre­ hensive examination for my doctorate. Many of the ideas proposed then (1989) seem to fit now. It is my dream to put them into practice someday in the future. THE COMPREHENSIVE EXAMINATION QUESTION In 1989, one question on the written comprehensive examination ques­ tions for my doctorate was, "If you were to create a comprehensive trauma center in your suburban area, making use of what you have learned in your [doctoral] experience, describe the organization of that center, the mission, structure, personnel, funding, objectives, and services it would offer. " Some of the conclusions reached then now seem applicable to the task at hand: design­ ing comprehensive trauma centers (CTCs) for the 21st century.

Contents:

1. The Comprehensive Trauma Center as an Organization: Basic Concepts from Organizational Theory

2. The Need for Comprehensive Trauma Centers: The State of Trauma in the World Today

3. Privately Developed Trauma Centers in the United States

4. Centers with Affiliations and Centers in Progress

5. Private and Not-for-Profit Centers around the World

6. Nonresidential Affiliated Centers throughout the World

7. Centers Specializing in Trauma and the Workplace

8. Hospital-Based Trauma Centers

9. Centers for Holocaust Survivors and Their Families

10. Centers Designed to Work with Refugees

11. Trauma Centers for Children

12. Government Funded Trauma Centers

13. The Experts View of What Trauma Is and How to Treat It

14. Trauma Center Directors Describe the Ideal Trauma Center

15. Constructing the Ideal Trauma Center: Reflections, Recommendations, and Realities

16. The Hamburg Experience: Providing Services in War-Torn Environments

References

Appendixes

I. Terms and Abbreviations

II. Trauma Centers and Their Addresses

III. The Research Protocol.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4757-3300-3