Maria Espinola, James M Shultz, Zelde Espinel, Benjamin M Althouse, Janice L Cooper, Florence Baingana, Louis Herns Marcelin, Toni Cela, Sherry Towers, Laurie Mazurik, M Claire Greene, Alyssa Beck, Michelle Fredrickson, Andrew McLean, Andreas Rechkemmer
This Disaster Health Briefing focuses on the work of an expanding team of researchers that is exploring the dynamics of fear-related behaviors in situations of mass threat. Fear-related behaviors are individual or collective behaviors and actions initiated in response to fear reactions that are triggered by a perceived threat or actual exposure to a potentially traumatizing event. Importantly, fear-related behaviors modulate the future risk of harm. Disaster case scenarios are presented to illustrate how fear-related behaviors operate when a potentially traumatic event threatens or endangers the physical and/or psychological health, wellbeing, and integrity of a population...
2016: Disaster Health