Meaning, Resilience, and Traumatic Stress After the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: A Study of Mississippi Coastal Residents Seeking Mental Health Services

2015 ◽  
Vol 72 (12) ◽  
pp. 1264-1278 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bethany J. Aiena ◽  
Erin M. Buchanan ◽  
C. Veronica Smith ◽  
Stefan E. Schulenberg
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Oil Spill ◽  
Traumatic Stress ◽  
Deepwater Horizon ◽  
Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill ◽  
Coastal Residents

Educators' Secondary Traumatic Stress, Children's Trauma, and the Need for Trauma Literacy

2019 ◽  
Vol 89 (3) ◽  
pp. 421-447 ◽  
Author(s):  
HAL A. LAWSON ◽  
JAMES C. CARINGI ◽  
RUTH GOTTFRIED ◽  
BRIAN E. BRIDE ◽  
STEPHEN P. HYDON
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
School Improvement ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Traumatic Stress ◽  
Early Identification ◽  
Secondary Traumatic Stress ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Personal Lives ◽  
Trauma Informed

In this essay, authors Lawson, Caringi, Gottfried, Bride, and Hydon introduce the concept of trauma literacy, connecting it to students' trauma and educators' secondary traumatic stress (STS). Interactions with traumatized students is one cause of STS; others derive from other traumatic encounters in schools and communities. Undesirable effects of STS start with professional disengagement and declining performance, include spill-over effects into educators' personal lives, and, ultimately, may cause them to leave the profession. The authors contend that alongside trauma-informed pedagogies and mental health services for students, mechanisms are needed for STS prevention, early identification, and rapid response. To benefit from and advance this dual framework, educators need a trauma-informed literacy that enables self-care, facilitates and safeguards interactions with trauma-impacted students and colleagues, and paves the way for expanded school improvement models.

scholarly journals 0217 The NIEHS GuLF STUDY: Mental Health Symptoms Among Participants Involved in the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Clean-up

2014 ◽  
Vol 71 (Suppl 1) ◽  
pp. A29.1-A29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Kwok ◽  
Lawrence Engel ◽  
Christine Ekenga ◽  
Aubrey Miller ◽  
Aaron Blair ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Oil Spill ◽  
Deepwater Horizon ◽  
Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill ◽  
Mental Health Symptoms ◽  
Health Symptoms

Mental Health Needs Assessment After the Gulf Coast Oil Spill—Alabama and Mississippi, 2010

2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (5) ◽  
pp. 401-408 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danielle Buttke ◽  
Sara Vagi ◽  
Tesfaye Bayleyegn ◽  
Kanta Sircar ◽  
Tara Strine ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Oil Spill ◽  
Gulf Coast ◽  
Deepwater Horizon ◽  
Coastal Communities ◽  
Health Needs ◽  
Mental Health Needs ◽  
Health Needs Assessment ◽  
Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill ◽  
Mental Health Effects

AbstractIntroductionPrevious oil spills and disasters from other human-made events have shown that mental health effects to the affected population are widespread and can be significant.Hypothesis/ProblemThere has been concern regarding the likelihood that existing public health surveillance was not capturing the mental health effects to the population affected by the Gulf Coast oil spill. The objectives of this study were to assess the mental health needs of coastal communities in the states of Alabama and Mississippi following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.MethodsA cluster sampling methodology was used to assess the mental health status of coastal residents in three counties in Alabama four months following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and in the Gulf Coast counties in Mississippi 5.5 months after the oil spill.ResultsA total of 469 residents of the selected areas were interviewed. Between 15.4 and 24.5% of the respondents reported depressive symptoms, with 21.4-31.5% reporting symptoms consistent with an anxiety disorder, and 16.3-22.8% reporting ≥14 mentally unhealthy days within the past 30 days. Overall, there were more negative quality of life indicators and negative social context outcomes than in the state's Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) survey. Between 32.1% and 35.7% of all households reported decreased income since the oil spill, and 35.5-38.2% of all households reported having been exposed to oil.ConclusionThe proportion of respondents reporting negative mental health parameters in the affected Alabama and Mississippi coastal communities is higher than the proportion reported in the 2008 and 2009 BRFSS state reports, suggesting that the public health response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill should focus on mental health services in these communities.ButtkeD, VagiS, BayleyegnT, SircarK, StrineT, MorrisonM, AllenM, WolkinA. Mental health needs assessment after the Gulf Coast oil spill—Alabama and Mississippi, 2010. Prehosp Disaster Med.2012;27(5):1-8.

Resilience after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (5) ◽  
pp. 597-610 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stacy Buckingham-Howes ◽  
Poorna Sreekumar ◽  
Glenn Morris ◽  
Lynn M. Grattan
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Mental Health ◽  
Oil Spill ◽  
Deepwater Horizon ◽  
Mood Disturbance ◽  
World Health ◽  
Early Assessment ◽  
Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill ◽  
Content Type

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the extent to which self-reported resilience was associated with mental health outcomes four years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill (DWHOS). Design/methodology/approach Participants included 179 men and women randomly selected from two Northeast Gulf Coast communities as part of a larger, prospective study of behavioral health post oil spill. The majority of the participants were Caucasian (70.8 percent), female (61.5 percent), had a high school education or lower (75.3 percent), and ranged in age from 18 to greater than 60 years old. Participants completed a measure of resilience (Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale, CD-RISC) 2.5 years post oil spill and measures of overall mood disturbance (Profile of Mood States), depression (Beck Depression Inventory), quality of life (World Health Organization Quality of Life-BREF Scale) 4.5 years post oil spill. Findings Based upon linear regression analyses, elevated self-reported resilience significantly predicted lower scores on mood disturbance (b=−0.63, p<0.01) and depressive symptoms (b=−0.14, p<0.05) and higher scores on psychological (b=0.08, p<0.01) and overall health quality of life (b=0.08, p<0.01). Factor analysis of the CD-RISC identified three factors (hardiness, adaptability, optimism). Each factor predicted some, but not all, of the outcomes with optimism being the least predictive of mental health. Originality/value Self-reported resilience two years after the DWHOS was a useful predictor of mental health outcome four years post-spill. Early assessment may facilitate the identification of individuals at risk of longer-term mental health problems for public health prevention or mental health intervention efforts.

scholarly journals After the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: Financial and Health Concerns Among Coastal Residents and Commercial Fishers

2015 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 576-586 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katie E. Cherry ◽  
Bethany A. Lyon ◽  
Loren D. Marks ◽  
Pam F. Nezat ◽  
Rachel Adamek ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Oil Spill ◽  
Deepwater Horizon ◽  
Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill ◽  
Health Concerns ◽  
Coastal Residents
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