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Betty Pfefferbaum
Betty Pfefferbaum
Former Investigator
Lead Investigator on START Research Projects
An Integrated Conception of Community Resilience
March 2010
to
February 2012
Building Community Resilience through Public Involvement: The Extended Community Assessment of Resilience Tool (CART-E)
June 2008
to
December 2011
Community Assessment of Resilience Tool (CART)
June 2005
to
May 2008
Developing Community Resilience for Children and Families
June 2005
to
May 2008
Selected Publications
The Association Between Parent-reported Child Disaster Reactions and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Parent Survivors of Disasters and Terrorism
(Journal Article)
Media Contact and Posttraumatic Stress in Employees of New York City Area Businesses after the September 11 Attacks
(Journal Article)
Risk and Resilience in Children in the Context of Mass Trauma
(Journal Article)
Immediate and Early Interventions for Children and Adolescents Post Terrorism
(Book Chapter)
Mental Health and the Covid-19 Pandemic
(Journal Article)
The Relationship between Maternal Psychopathology and Parental Perceptions of Their Children’s Reactions in Survivors of the 1998 US Embassy Bombing in Nairobi, Kenya
(Journal Article)
The Benefit of Interventions to Reduce Posttraumatic Stress in Youth Exposed to Mass Trauma: A Review and Meta-Analysis
(Journal Article)
The Effect of Interventions on Functional Impairment in Youth Exposed to Mass Trauma: A Meta-Analysis
(Journal Article)
Terrorism Media Effects in Youth Exposed to Chronic Threat and Conflict in Israel
(Journal Article)
Is Viewing Mass Trauma Television Coverage Associated With Trauma Reactions in Adults and Youth? A Meta‐Analytic Review
(Journal Article)
A Meta-analysis of Intervention Effects on Depression and/or Anxiety in Youth Exposed to Political Violence or Natural Disasters
(Journal Article)
Media Effects in Youth Exposed to Terrorist Incidents: A Historical Perspective
(Journal Article)
A Study of Selected Ethnic Affiliations in the Development of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and Other Psychopathology After a Terrorist Bombing in Nairobi, Kenya
(Journal Article)
Do Direct Survivors of Terrorism Remaining in the Disaster Community Show Better Long-Term Outcome than Survivors Who Relocate?
(Journal Article)
A Skill Set for Supporting Displaced Children in Psychological Recovery After Disasters
(Journal Article)
Ethical Conduct of Research in the Aftermath of Mass Shootings
(Book Chapter)
Assessing Community Reilience: A CART Survery Application in an Impoverished Urban Community
(Journal Article)
Community Resilience
(Book Chapter)
Current Evidence for Selecting Disaster Interventions for Children and Adolescents
(Journal Article)
Intensely Exposed Oklahoma City Terrorism Survivors: Long-term Mental Health and Health Needs and Posttraumatic Growth
(Journal Article)
Reactions of Oklahoma City Bombing Survivors to Media Coverage of the September 11, 2001 Attacks
(Journal Article)
A Conceptual Framework to Enhance Community Resilience Using Social Capital
(Journal Article)
Assessing Community Resilience: An Application of the Expanded CART Survey Instrument with Affiliated Volunteer Responders
(Journal Article)
Community Resilience Interventions: Participatory, Assessment-Based, Action-Oriented Processes
(Journal Article)
Universal Preventive Interventions for Children in the Context of Disasters and Terrorism
(Journal Article)
Children of Terrorism Survivors: Physiological Reactions Seven Years following a Terrorist Incident
(Book Chapter)
Practice Parameter on Disaster Preparedness
(Journal Article)
Psychosocial Adjustment of Directly Exposed Survivors Seven Years after the Oklahoma City Bombing
(Journal Article)
Exploring Community Resilience in Workforce Communities of First Responders Serving Katrina Survivors
(Journal Article)
Provider Perspectives on Serving the Needs of Displaced Disaster Survivors Following Hurricane Katrina
(Book Chapter)
Serious Emotion Disturbance Among Youth Exposed To Hurricane Katrina Two Years Post-Disaster
(Journal Article)
Schools in the Shadow of Terrorism: Psychosocial Adjustment and Interest in Interventions Following Terror Attacks
(Journal Article)
The Business of Healing: Focus Group Discussions of Readjustment to the Post-9/11 Work Environment Among Workers of Affected Agencies
(Journal Article)
Emotional and Biological Stress Measures in Katrina Survivors Relocated to Oklahoma
(Journal Article)
The Role of Public Health in Mental and Behavioral Health in Children and Families Following Disasters
(Journal Article)
Media Coverage and Children's Reactions to Disaster with Implications for Primary Care and Public Health
(Journal Article)
Research with Children Exposed to Disasters
(Journal Article)
Children Displaced by Hurricane Katrina: A Focus Group Study
(Journal Article)
Training for Disaster Response Personnel: The Development of Proposed Core Competencies in Disaster Mental Health
(Journal Article)
Children and Families in the Context of Disasters: Implications for Preparedness and Response
(Journal Article)
Community Resilience as a Metaphor, Theory, Set of Capacities, and Strategy for Disaster Readiness
(Journal Article)
Change in Smoking and Drinking After September 11, 2001, in a National Sample of Ever Smokers and Ever Drinkers
(Journal Article)
Katrina Survivors Relocated to Oklahoma: A Tale of Two Cities
(Journal Article)
P-Flash: Development of an Empirically-based Post-9-11 Disaster Mental Health Training Program
(Journal Article)
Youth's Reactions to Disasters and the Factors That Influence Their Response
(Journal Article)
Community Resilience and Wellness for Children Exposed to Hurricane Katrina
(Book Chapter)
Integrating Authorities and Disciplines into the Preparedness-Planning Process: A Study of Mental Health, Public Health, and Emergency Management
(Journal Article)
Physiologic Reactivity Despite Emotional Resilience Several Years After Direct Exposure to Terrorism
(Journal Article)
Building Resilience to Mass Trauma Events
(Book Chapter)
Focus Groups with Children After the World Trade Center Attacks
(Journal Article)
Historical Perspective and Future Directions in Research on Psychiatric Consequences of Terrorism and Other Disasters
(Book Chapter)
Trauma, Grief, and Depression in Nairobi Children After the 1998 Bombing of the American Embassy
(Journal Article)
Adolescents Discuss their Reactions to the September 11 Attacks
(Journal Article)
Identification and Evaluation of Mental Health and Psychosocial Preparedness Resources From the Centers for Public Health Preparedness
(Journal Article)
News References
School principals can help assess community resilience
(Featured Research)
Businesswire: New National Biodefense Science Board members will advise HHS
(START in the News)
Have you seen it yet? START Research Review
(Featured Research)
START releases first Research Review
(Featured Research)
START Bulletin Summer 2008 Inaugural Issue
(Newsletter)
START Research Symposium: Wednesday, June 28th
(News)