This chapter focuses on integrative approaches to trauma therapy, crisis intervention, and disaster response. The purpose of the chapter is to identify and explain best practices for integrative mental health responses aimed at supporting survivors of trauma, crises, and disasters. While each unique situation requires a tailored response, this chapter describes the basic principles that apply to nearly all emergent, mass casualty, and traumatizing events.

This chapter focuses on the current international context of disability-related issues and on the expanding role of rehabilitation counselors (RCs) around the world. It offers definitions of disability and synopses of policy issues that are operational within an international framework. The scope of practice of RCs and other professionals working with disability globally are illuminated. The chapter examines trends and useful practices in the relevant international literatures, summarizing key psychosocial issues across the life span. The chapter concludes with recommendations for practice-based applications aimed at enhancing the lives of people living with disabilities.

This chapter focuses on understanding issues of loss and grief as well as their intersections with trauma experiences. It examines the classical theories associated with loss and grief, describing the transition to a postmodern perspective of how grief is experienced. The chapter describes interventions that can be used with clients experiencing loss and grief, along with the counseling implications. Practice-based resources are available online.

The purpose of this chapter is to explicate the impact that war has on members of the military. In describing the effects of war on combat veterans and the challenges posed for those who return from war, potential needs for relevant mental health services are made explicit. The chapter identifies practice implications and offers an online list of resources for professionals working with military veterans.

This final chapter focuses on synthesizing the information about trauma, stress, crisis, and disaster presented in the previous 32 chapters of this textbook. As an extension of analyzing the counseling implications presented across all of the chapters of this book, Chapter 33 presents the details of an integrative systemic approach to trauma (ISAT) model, with the hope that it can expand upon and continue to construct the trauma scaffold described in the first four chapters of this textbook.

This chapter introduces foundational knowledge necessary for understanding the effects of psychosocial trauma, stress, crisis, and disaster. It offers brief discussions about the historical implications of how psychosocial trauma has come to be defined as well as how the related diagnostic categories have developed. Finally, the importance of recognizing the human capacity for resilience and growth, in the face of trauma, is emphasized.

The purpose of this chapter is to explore the confluence of crisis issues that relates to migration, anthropogenic climate change, war, and civil unrest. Such a confluence of crises is complex and involves interrelated situations that may result in humanitarian emergencies and mass casualties. Events of the 21st century have made clear how critical it is for counselors and other helping professionals to understand the convergences of these very real human-behavior-driven dynamics and to intercede, as necessary, in ways that are productive. The major objective of this chapter is to elucidate this crucial contemporary issue of multiple intersecting crises and trauma events.

This chapter focuses on the intolerance experienced by marginalized groups of people, based on race, ethnicity, and immigration status. It reviews current knowledge about violence-based trauma among minority groups and offers discussions that highlight historical patterns of and risk factors for PTSD. The chapter briefly summarizes interventions and treatments that relate to race-based, ethnicity-based, historical, and intergenerational trauma.

This chapter examines the history and evolution of violence in schools and presents the various mental health and violence prevention theories and interventions that have developed and continue to emerge in the ever-changing landscape of the spillover of societal violence into spaces historically considered safe, such as American schools. This chapter delves into the discrepancies in response time and method, funding, and maintenance of follow-up in districts and communities that have fewer resources. Statistics regarding the occurrence of violence in public and private schools are presented, and strategies aimed at increasing safety are discussed. Brief and long-term counseling approaches are explored, and resources are offered online at Springer Connect.

The purpose of this chapter is to outline some of the consequences of trauma that occur during early childhood. The chapter discusses particular trauma-relevant issues in early childhood, identifies therapeutic responses, and examines the counseling implications. These major sections are followed by a summary of the chapter and an online list of relevant resources.