Defining the role and function of disaster response -- What is disaster mental health counseling? -- The search for meaning in trauma and disaster -- The neuroscience of stress and trauma -- Empathy first aid and disaster mental health counseling -- Cultural empathy and disaster mental health counseling -- Multicultural perspectives in disaster mental health counseling -- Integrating culture into disaster mental health counseling : foundations of mind, body and spirit -- Trauma and spirituality : implications for counselor educators, supervisors, and practitioners -- Medical aspects of disaster and trauma / Mark A. Stebnicki and Irmo Marini -- Psychosocial adjustment issues in disaster mental health counseling -- Career transition in disaster mental health -- Interventions in disaster mental health counseling -- Immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers : the psychosocial cost to war on civilians -- Military and disaster mental health counseling -- The trauma of terrorism and disaster mental health counseling -- The psychosocial impact on environmental and natural disasters / Mark A. Stebnicki and Irmo Marini -- Trauma and resiliency in disaster mental health counseling -- From empathy fatigue to empathy resiliency -- The personal growth program to heal trauma (PGP-HT).