Scientific rationale of the system to protect mental health in radiation emergency events (on the experience of the Chernobyl catastrophe)

Author: K.N. Loganovsky, M.A. Bomko, S.A. Chumak

Reference: Психиатрия, психотерапия и клиническая психология (Psychiatry, psychotherapy and clinical psychology), 2012

Keywords: cerebrovascular disease, organic mental disorders, depression, neurotic stress-related and somatoform disorders, protection measures

Abstract: In the victims of the Chernobyl disaster, especially the liquidators, revealed an excess of cerebrovascular disease, organic mental disorders, depression, neurotic, stress-related and somatoform disorders and alcohol dependence. Progredient character of the flow of the disease is confirmed. We have developed models for mental health care in radiation accidents and radiological terrorist attacks, differentiated algorithms of the provision of neuropsychiatric intensive care, in the structure of medical response in such events, and block model for neuropsychiatric intensive assistance for victims of radiological emergencies.

URL:http://www.recipe.by/izdaniya/periodika/psihiatriya/archiv/ppkp_2_2012/Original/1339967617.html

Informational and psychological protection of the population at the radioactively contaminated territories of Russia and Belarus following the Chernobyl accident in the late (distant) period

Title: Informational and psychological protection of the population at the radioactively contaminated territories of Russia and Belarus following the Chernobyl accident in the late (distant) period

Author: Simonov, Alexander Vasilyevich

Reference: Moscow, 2010

Keywords: Russia, Belarus, informational-psychological protection, contaminated areas

Abstract: Study aim: justification of the concept (principles of structural – functional model) and organizational-methodological provision of the population with informational-psychological protection living at the radioactively contaminated areas in Belarus and Russia in the late period following the Chernobyl accident.

URL:http://www.dissercat.com/content/informatsionno-psikhologicheskaya-zashchita-naseleniya-radioaktivno-zagryaznennykh-territori