Traumatologist Paul Valent believes that knowledge of human responses in disasters can help individuals and societies to better control catastrophic events, such as the present pandemic.

This concise book will help the general reader to understand the very wide mental health effects of this pandemic, and thus to understand how distress may be better managed today and in the future.

The author summarises disaster responses as they have manifested in this pandemic. These responses are biological, psychological and social, and they affect individuals, families, children and vulnerable groups.

He also provides a framework which helps to the reader to understand, and thus be better informed to treat, the wide-ranging consequences of the pandemic.

About the Author
Paul Valent is an internationally renowned traumatologist with a background in medicine, psychiatry, and psychotherapy. Among his publications are numerous papers and several books. His first book was Child Survivors of the Holocaust: Adults Living with Childhood Trauma. His From Survival to Fulfilment: A Framework for the Life-Trauma Dialectic and Trauma and Fulfilment Therapy: A Wholist Framework are pioneering texts in traumatology. In Two Minds: Tales of a Psychotherapist and his latest book, Heart of Violence: Why People Harm Each Other, are suitable for both professionals and the general public.


Book Information
ISBN 9781922454058
Author Paul Valent
Format Paperback
Page Count 82
Imprint Australian Scholarly Publishing
Publisher Australian Scholarly Publishing