Helpful Readings for follow-up to the June 24-25 Conference, Cities of Fear-Cities of Hope

Bell, C. (2001). Cultivating Resiliency in Youth. Journal of Adolescent Health, 29: 375-381.

Butler, A., Panzer, A. & Goldfrank, L. (Eds.). (2003). Preparing for the psychological consequences of terrorism: A public health strategy. (Committee on Responding to the  Psychological  Consequences  of  Terrorism,  Board  on  Neuroscience  and Behavioral  Health).  Washington,  D.C.:  Institute of Medicine of The National Academy of Sciences, The National Academic Press. [On-Line].  Available: http://books.nap.edu/books/0309089530/html/index.html

Collins, R., Taylor, S. & Skokan L. (1990). A better world or a shattered vision? Changes in life perspectives following victimization. Social Cognition, 8: 263-285.

Dienstbier, R. (1989). Arousal and physiological toughness: Implications for mental and physical health. Psychological Review, 96: 84-100.

Eisenberger, R. (1992). Learned Industriousness. Psychological Review, 99: 248-267. 

Florian, V., Milkulincer, M. & Taubman, O. (1995). Does hardiness contribute to mental health during a stressful real-life situation? The roles of appraisal and coping. The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 68: 687-695.

Glass, T., Schoch-Spana, M. Bioterrorism and the People: How to Vaccinate a City against Panic. American Psychological Association, Confronting Biological Weapons. CID 2002:34 (15 January).

Klitzman, S. & Freudenberg, N. (2003). Implications of the world trade center attack for the public health and health care infrastructures. American Journal of Public Health, 93(3), 400-406.

National Institute of Mental Health (2002). Mental Health and mass violence: evidence-based early psychological intervention for victims/survivors of mass violence. A workshop to reach consensus on best practices. NIH Publication No. 02-5138, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office. [On-Line]. Available: http://www.nimh.gov/research/massviolence.pdf

North, C. & Pfefferbaum, B. (2002). Research on the mental health effects of terrorism. Journal of the American Medical Association, 288(5), 633-636.

O'Leary, V. & Ickovics, J. (1995). Resilience and thriving in response to challenge: An opportunity for a paradigm shift in women's health. Women's Health: Research on Gender, Behavior, and Policy 1: 121-142.

Petereson, C. (2000). The future of optimism. American Psychologist, 55(1), 44-55.

Rubonis, A. & Bickman, L. (1991). Psychological Impairment in the wake of disaster: The disaster-psychopathology relationship. Psychological Bulletin, 109(3), 384-399.

Schlenger, W., Caddell, J., Ebert, L., Jordan, K., Rourke, K., Wilson, D., Thalji, L., Dennis, M., Fairbank, J. & Kulka, R. (2002). Psychological reactions to terrorist attacks. Journal of the American Medical Association, 288(5), 581.[On-Line]. Available:  http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/288/5/581    

Silver, R., Holman, A., McIntosh, D., Poulin, M. & Gil-Rivas, V. (2002). Nationwide longitudinal study of psychological responses to September 11. Journal of the American Medical Association, 288(10), 1235-1244.

Stern, J. (1999). The Ultimate Terrorists.  Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.

Susser, E., Herman, D. & Aaron, B. (2002, August). Combating the terror of terrorism. Scientific American. 72-77.

Tedeschi, R. & Calhoun, L. (1995) Trauma and Transformation: Growing in the Aftermath of Suffering. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Tucker, P., Pfefferbaum, B., Vincent, R., Boehler, S. & Nixon, S. (1998). Oklahoma City: Disaster challenges mental health and medical administrators. Journal of Behavioral health services and research, 25(1), 93-99.

Vaillant, G. (2000). Adaptive Mental Mechanisms. American Psychologist, 55: 89-98.