The Harvard Review of Psychiatry, July/August 2004 edition, is dedicated to the topic of psychological responses to traumatic events.

The following is an abstract of the article that was co-authored by Dr. Lenore Behar.

Much of today's psychological trauma can be identified as resulting from sudden and seemingly random events, and particularly from events that involve the loss of human life.

This article presents a perspective on how behavioral health providers may approach the design, development, and implementation of community-based psychological trauma interventions. These interventions allow those community members most affected by the trauma to play a central role in the resolution of, and community adaptation to, traumatic losses.

After a brief discussion of "critical incident stress debriefing"-a common form of psychological "first aid" that is sometimes used following traumatic events that affect a community-the article turns to the description of a community-based trauma-response program that provides a continuum-of-care model for the care and management of individual and group reactions to shared, traumatic events.

A recent evaluation of that program, which was developed by the Community Services Program of the Trauma Center in Boston, is presented as an important first step toward determining the types of community-based responses that show promise in our efforts to ameliorate the impact of traumatic events in communities nationwide and internationally.

Macy, R.D., Behar, Lenore B., Paulson, R., Delman, J., Schmid, L. (2004) Harvard Review of Psychiatry, 12, 1-12.

Mobilizing Trauma Resources for Children

Authors:

William W. Harris, Ph.D.
Children’s Research and Education Institute, Belmont, Massachusetts

Frank W. Putnam, M.D.
Mayerson Center for Safe & Healthy Children
Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio

John A. Fairbank, Ph.D.
UCLA-Duke University National Center for Child Traumatic Stress
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina

Presented in part at the meeting of the Johnson and Johnson Pediatric Institute: Shaping the Future of Children’s Health, San Juan, Puerto Rico, February 12-16, 2004.

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A Study of the Community Services Program of the Trauma Center at Arbour Health Systems

Authors:

Lenore Behar, Ph.D.
Child and Family Program Strategies

Robert I. Paulson, Ph.D.
Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute
University of South Florida

Jonathan Delman, JD, MPH
Lisa Schmid, MPH
Consumer Quality Initiatives, Inc.

Threat, stress, terrorism and trauma have become everyday concerns, following September 11. However, before the startling psychological impact of September 11, communities across the country had been struggling with the trauma of school, community and family violence, child abuse, child and adolescent sudden violent death, and man-made and natural disasters. Trauma psychology has developed as a specialized field to study human responses and develop ways of handling these responses.

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Promising Practices for Meeting the
Mental Health Needs of Youth in
Juvenile Justice Facilities

Report to the Massachusetts Suicide Prevention Task Force
September 2004

Lenore Behar, Ph.D.
Child & Family Program Strategies
Durham, North Carolina

The concerns about youth in the juvenile justice system with mental health disorders are longstanding. These concerns are multidimensional, ranging from recognition that the youths’ mental health problems 1) may have led to their criminal acts; 2) may compromise their responses to rehabilitation; 3) may disrupt the rehabilitation processes for others in the correctional setting; 4) may require different interventions, including medication; and 5) may pose problems of providing safety for those youth or for others

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A Start

The Alliance for the Safe, Theraputic and Appropriate use of Residential Treatement.

Dr. Lenore Behar is a founding member of the A Start program.

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Expanding the Array of Services using Networks of Providers in Community-based Integrated Systems of Care.

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This is the bibliography for the presentation given by Dr. Lenore Behar in March 2006 at the Conference for Assessing and Treating Childhood, Adolescent and Adult Trauma. Sponsored by Aliant International University's Institute on Violence, Abuse and Trauma.

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COMMUNITY BASED INTERVENTIONS IN
TWO PARTS:

SYSTEMS OF CARE AND
APPROACHES TO RECOVERY FROM
PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAUMA

and

NUTS AND BOLTS OF TRAUMA RESPONSE

Lenore B. Behar, PhD, Director
Child & Family Program Strategies Durham, North Carolina
Presented at
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BUILDING A FRAMEWORK FOR SUCCESS MISSISSIPPI INSTITUTE ON SCHOOL HEALTH, WELLNESS AND SAFETY

THE SUPER CONFERENCE
September 26-29, 2006

Pearl River Resort-Philadelphia, MS

The following is the documentation for this presentation.

The following presentations are done in Power Point format:

Nuts and Bolts of Trama Response

Plenary for the Presentation

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Concept Mapping Project

Developing Mississippi 's System of Care

Presented at the 20 th Annual Conference

The Research & Training Center for Children's Mental Health,

University of South Florida
Tampa , FL
March 2007

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Concept Mapping Project

A Next Generation Strategy For Planning and Evaluating Systems Change

Purpose: Enhance, facilitate, and support family and consumer involvement in the development of responsive, family-centered, and community based systems of care for children, youth and young adults and their families.

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