"Surviving 9/11: Impact and Experience of Occupational Therapy Practitioners is a collection of firsthand accounts from occupational therapy providers and their clients. This book reveals the thoughts and fears of occupational therapists who had to help heal their patients while suffering emotional and psychological stress themselves. This volume shows how occupational therapy practitioners dealt with the aftermath using group discussions, planned events, and creative projects to heal themselves as well as their clients."--BOOK JACKET.

"Co-published simultaneously as Occupational therapy in mental health, Volume 19, Numbers 3/4."

From the 103rd floor / Mary Squillace -- Disabled and experiencing disaster : personal and professional accounts / Hanna Diamond, Pat Precin -- Being there / Mary V. Donohue -- 9/11, a Muslim occupational therapy student's perspective / Sabina Luna, Diane B. Tewfik -- Personal perspective on 9/11 / Ann Burkhardt -- September twelfth : an American away from home / Jennifer Wright -- Ground Zero needs assessment / Pat Precin -- Biography of a Ground Zero firefighter / Mary Squillace -- The K-9 unit / Pat Precin, Brad Gottlieb -- The Downtown Therapists' Assistance Project / Iris Kimberg -- Coping with tragedy : a fieldwork student's experience with FEMA crisis counseling / Jennifer Persh -- Coping with the trauma of 9/11 / Jane Prawda -- Spiritual spontaneity : developing our own 9/11 : one occupational therapist's spiritual journey across the 9/11 divide / Naomi Schubin Greenberg.