With traumatic stress an increasing global challenge, the U.N., the NGO community and governments must take into account the psychological aftermath of large-scale catastrophes and individual or group violence.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Overview: WHO : from the health perspective / Shekhar Saxena -- Introduction / Susan D. Solomon -- Traumatic stress and its consequences / Bonnie L. Green -- Social deprivation / Ellen L. Bassuk and Brigid Donelan -- Intervention options for society, communities, families, and individuals / John A. Fairbank ... [et al.] -- Abuse and torture: The ascendant ethical self / Odile Frank -- Child abuse in peacetime / David A. Wolfe and Madhabika B. Nayak -- Abuse of older people / Rosalie F. Wolf, Gerry Bennett, and Lia Daichman -- People with mental and physical disabilities / Kim T. Mueser ... [et al.] -- Violence against women / Mary Ann Dutton ... [et al.] -- Survivors of mass violence and torture / Stuart Turner, Sahika Yuksel, and Derrick Silove -- War and disasters: Coordinating humanitarian assistance with OCHA : issues of psychological trauma / Mark Bowden -- Children in armed conflict / William Yule ... [et al.] -- Refugees and internally displaced people / Nancy Baron, Soeren Buus Jensen, and Joop T.V.M. de Jong -- Former combatants / Brian Engdahl ... [et al.] -- Natural and technological disasters / Daya Somasundaram ... [et al.] -- United Nations personnel: UNSECOORD : protecting the protectors / Diana Russler -- UN peacekeepers and civilian field personnel / Matthew J. Friedman, Peter G. Warfe, and Gladys K. Mwiti -- Summary and conclusion: World Bank : an overview and some next steps / Florence K. Baingana -- A call to action : responding to social and humanitarian crises / Terence M. Keane.