John A. Fairbank

Journal article Adm Policy Ment Health · May 2012 Featured Publication Empirically supported treatments for posttraumatic stress reactions in children are not widely available. This observational study evaluates the feasibility and utility of adapting the Institute for Healthcare's Breakthrough Series Collaborative (BSC) to s ... Full text Link to item Cite

Mental health impact of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts: a review of US research, service provision, and programmatic responses.

Journal article Int Rev Psychiatry · April 2011 Featured Publication Although documentation that war inflicts psychological casualties dates back to the American Civil War and earlier, most research began after the Vietnam conflict, when studies focused on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). With ongoing conflicts in Ira ... Full text Link to item Cite

Trends in serious emotional disturbance among youths exposed to Hurricane Katrina.

Journal article J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry · October 2010 Featured Publication OBJECTIVE: To examine patterns and predictors of trends in DSM-IV serious emotional disturbance (SED) among youths exposed to Hurricane Katrina. METHOD: A probability sample of adult pre-hurricane residents of the areas affected by Katrina completed baseli ... Full text Link to item Cite

Building National Capacity for Child and Family Disaster Mental Health Research.

Journal article Prof Psychol Res Pr · February 1, 2010 Featured Publication Disaster mental health is a burgeoning field with numerous opportunities for professional involvement in preparedness, response, and recovery efforts. Research is essential to advance professional understanding of risk and protective factors associated wit ... Full text Link to item Cite

Enhancing national capacity to conduct child and family disaster mental health research.

Journal article Nurs Educ Perspect · 2010 Featured Publication A substantial number of children and families experience emotional difficulties in the aftermath of disasters and terrorist events. Only recently has training in disaster preparedness and response been systematically incorporated into the curricula of ment ... Link to item Cite

Serious emotional disturbance among youths exposed to Hurricane Katrina 2 years postdisaster.

Journal article J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry · November 2009 Featured Publication OBJECTIVE: To estimate the prevalence of serious emotional disturbance (SED) among children and adolescents exposed to Hurricane Katrina along with the associations of SED with hurricane-related stressors, sociodemographics, and family factors 18 to 27 mon ... Full text Link to item Cite

DSM-V PTSD diagnostic criteria for children and adolescents: a developmental perspective and recommendations.

Journal article J Trauma Stress · October 2009 Featured Publication The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-V) should ensure systematic attention to age-specific manifestations and selective modifications of the diagnostic criteria for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among childre ... Full text Link to item Cite

Epidemiology of child traumatic stress.

Journal article Curr Psychiatry Rep · August 2009 Featured Publication In this article, we present an update on epidemiologic research that addresses the scope and impact of children's exposure to traumatic events in daily living, as well as under special circumstances, such as natural disasters. Toward this end, we provide a ... Full text Link to item Cite

The psychological risks of Vietnam: the NVVRS perspective.

Journal article J Trauma Stress · August 2007 Featured Publication In recent years, controversy concerning the psychological consequences of service in the Vietnam war has rearisen. In this article, the Co-Principal Investigators of the National Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Study (NVVRS) provide a perspective on new find ... Full text Link to item Cite

A taxometric investigation of dissociation in Vietnam veterans.

Journal article J Trauma Stress · August 2005 Featured Publication There is long-standing debate about whether elevated dissociative symptoms are common in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or whether there is a distinct subtype of cases with elevated dissociation. The current investigation examined the latent structur ... Full text Link to item Cite

Adverse race-related events as a risk factor for posttraumatic stress disorder in Asian American Vietnam veterans.

Journal article J Nerv Ment Dis · July 2005 Featured Publication Few studies have explored the relationship between exposure to adverse race-related events and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This study examined whether adverse race-related events can give rise to symptoms that meet the criteria for a PTSD diagnos ... Full text Link to item Cite

Families at risk: comment on Dirkzwager, Bramsen, Adèr, and van der Ploeg (2005).

Journal article J Fam Psychol · June 2005 Featured Publication New findings from a study by A. J. E. Dirkzwager, I. Bramsen, H. Adèr, and H. M. van der Ploeg (2005; see record 2005-06518-006) provide important empirical information on the adverse psychological and functional adjustment of families of former Dutch peac ... Full text Link to item Cite

The terror part of terrorism.

Journal article IEEE Eng Med Biol Mag · 2004 Featured Publication Full text Link to item Cite

Psychiatric disorder, impairment, and service use in rural African American and white youth.

Journal article Arch Gen Psychiatry · October 2002 Featured Publication BACKGROUND: The Caring for Children in the Community Study examined the prevalence of DSM-IV psychiatric disorders and correlates of mental health service use in rural African American and white youth. METHODS: Four thousand five hundred youth aged 9 to 17 ... Full text Link to item Cite

Psychological reactions to terrorist attacks: findings from the National Study of Americans' Reactions to September 11.

Journal article JAMA · August 7, 2002 Featured Publication CONTEXT: The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, represent an unprecedented exposure to trauma in the United States. OBJECTIVES: To assess psychological symptom levels in the United States following the events of September 11 and to examine the associ ... Full text Link to item Cite

The prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder among American Indian Vietnam veterans: disparities and context.

Journal article J Trauma Stress · April 2002 Featured Publication This study employed data from two Congressionally mandated efforts (the American Indian Vietnam Veterans Project and the National Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Study) to examine differential prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among 5 ethnic ... Full text Link to item Cite

The prevalence of potentially traumatic events in childhood and adolescence.

Journal article J Trauma Stress · April 2002 Featured Publication This paper examines exposure to potentially traumatic events from middle childhood through adolescence, and vulnerability to such exposure. Analyses are based on the first 4 annual waves of data from a longitudinal general population study of youth in west ... Full text Link to item Cite

Lifetime use of mental health and substance abuse treatment services by incarcerated women felons.

Journal article Psychiatr Serv · March 2002 Featured Publication OBJECTIVE: This study examined the lifetime use of alcohol, drug, and mental health treatment services by recently incarcerated women prison inmates. METHODS: A total of 805 women entering a North Carolina prison for new felony charges in 1991 and 1992 wer ... Full text Link to item Cite

Guidelines for international training in mental health and psychosocial interventions for trauma exposed populations in clinical and community settings.

Journal article Psychiatry · 2002 Featured Publication OBJECTIVE: To develop consensus-based guidelines for training in mental health and psychosocial interventions for trauma-exposed populations in the international arena. PARTICIPANTS: The Task Force on International Trauma Training of the International Soci ... Full text Link to item Cite