Handbook for Mental Health Care of Disaster Victims

Raquel E. Cohen is superintendent of the Erich Lindemann Mental Health Center and director for mental health and mental retardation in the Harbor Area, Boston. Nationally active in designing and promoting mental health services for disaster intervention, she is associate professor of psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School and senior psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital. Frederick L. Ahearn, Jr., is chairman and associate professor of Community Organization and Social Planning at the Boston College Graduate School of Social Work. He has also been administrator of a mental health clinic and consultant to various mental health groups.