- Asset Building in a Time of Uncertainty
A variety of thoughts, resources, and opportunities for dialogue regarding asset-based perspectives and responses to the events on and following September 11, 2001.
- US Department of Health and Human Services
Homepage lists links to resources on how to help, how to get help, contacts and other information relating to the disaster response.
- Disaster Mental Health Services
From SAMHSA, this page offers resources and links to service information regarding the provision of mental health assistance following a disaster. Topics include tips for takling about disasters, technical assistnace materials, program guidance, mental health services locator and news.
- NASW
A continually updated webpage offering disaster information, including coping with trauma - how citizens can get help, how social workers can get involved, NASW statement on the tragedy and publications and resources.
- Response to Terrorist Attacks Against American
From NIMH this page provides information on PTSD, anxiety and depression, as well as additional resources and information provided in Spanish.
- Disaster Coping Resources
Links to several Internet resources to help deal with the September 11th tragedy.
- Coping Advice for Adults
Links to resources providing information on how to cope with your emotional reactions, how to keep them from escalating to more serious problems, and when to seek professional help.
- Disaster Mental Health: Dealing with the Aftereffects of Terrorism
A page of links to resources for both professionals and for the public.
- Resources for Dealing with the Global Tragedy
From the Boston College of Social Work, this page offers resources for coping with the tragedy, children and tragedy, and current news.
- In Times of Terror: Who Takes Care of the Psychotherapists?
A page presenting suggestions for mental health professionals to deal with their own feelings regarding the recent tragedy.
- Coping With the Aftermath
Suggestions for how someone with an anxiety disorder or any person can cope in a changed world following the recent tragedy. Includes a forum discussion.
- Forum
An Internet forum that includes discussion groups on various issues related the recent attacks.
- Coping in the Workplace
What you can do to cope in your workplace and how to help your employees if you're the employer.
- Tips for College Students
Suggestions for ways in which college students can cope with the recent disaster. Links provided to additional resources for college students to obtain further assistance.
- Tips for Adults
Suggestions for adults to deal with disaster, including responses and what you can do.
- Coping With Terror
From MSNBC, this article offers information on recognizing common responses, both immediate and long-term, to the disaster. Suggestions for dealing with this stress is also provided.
- Grieving Child Guide
Links to sites that offer information to help people working with a grieving child.
- Grief: The Dagger in the Heart
An article discussing the grief process and suggestions for making the processless difficult.
- Bereavement and Grief
Page includes information on various issues related to dealing with loss, including coping, mourning, knowing what to expect, living with grief, and helping others grieve.
- Grieving
Information on grieving from American College of Physicians and American Society of Internal Medicine. Contents include understanding the problem, when to get help, how to help yourself, considering obstacles and making and carrying out a plan.
- The Grieving Process
Developed as site for college students, this page provides information for students or anyone regarding the steps involved in the grieving process, how to cope, and how to help a grieving student.
- Health Grieving
This page, developed by a college counseling center, explains grief, ways people experience grief, and how to help yourself through grief. Recommended reading list.
- How to Support Children and Ourselves During Crisis at Home and School
From the Center for Grieving Children, this page provides information on grief and children, activities and books for grieving families, and greif in the workplace.
- Teenage Grief
A non-profit organization that provides expertise in providing grief support to bereaved teens.
- Bereavement.net
A website devoted to grief information. Contents includes information on support groups, workshops, reading list, publications, and a special page specifically dealing with coping with grief and loss following the September 11th tragedy.
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These resource lists are being maintained by Debbie Plotnick, working with Paul Grobstein, Department of Biology, and James Martin, School of Social Work and Social Research, at Bryn Mawr College. Suggestions for additions to the list are welcome, as are more general thoughts about how to most effectively make available information, and promote conversation, about issues of mental health. Contact dplotnic@brynmawr.edu - pgrobste@brynmawr.edu - jmartin@brynmawr.edu.
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