Increasingly frequent environmental exposures to hazardous substances present mental health professionals with groups and at times communities of people, faced with high levels of psychological threat. As a result of an increasingly industrial and technological society, a new type of group cohort has emerged individuals exposed to hazardous substances that present the possibility of immediate and chronic threats to their health and their families health. Although the medical sequalae to such exposure had been established, little attention had been paid to the mental health issues or to possible integrated psychophysiological consequences. Originally published in 1986, this book focuses on reactions to exposure to toxic substances as well as some predictors of response in groups faced with increased medical risk subsequent to some of the most common and hazardous toxic exposures found at the time: radiation, toxic waste, asbestos, lead, contaminated water, and toxic chemical fire and leak.
First published in 1986, this book looks at reactions to exposure to toxic substances as well as some predictors of response in groups faced with increased medical risk subsequent to some of the most common and hazardous toxic exposures found at the time: radiation, toxic waste, asbestos, lead, contaminated water, and toxic chemical fire and leak.
List of Contributors. Preface. Part 1: Occupational Exposures
1. The
Case of Asbestos-Exposed Workers: A Psychological Evaluation Allen H.
Lebovits, Mary Byrne, and James J. Strain
2. Psychosocial Correlates of
Occupational Lead Exposure Evelyn J. Bromet, Christopher M. Ryan, and David
K. Parkinson Part 2: Non-Occupational Exposures
3. Toxic Exposure and
Chronic Stress at Three Mile Island Laura M. Davidson, Andrew Baum, India
Fleming, and Martha M. Gisriel
4. Psychopathological Consequences of Exposure
to Toxins in the Water Supply Margaret S. Gibbs
5. Assessing the Impact of
Hazardous Waste Facilities: Psychology, Politics, and Environmental Impact
Statements Kenneth M. Bachrach and Alex J. Zautra
6. Predictors of
Psychological Distress in the Community Following Two Toxic Chemical
Incidents Jeffrey S. Markowitz and Elane M. Gutterman
7. Threats to People
and What They Value: Residents Perceptions of the Hazards of Love Canal
Adeline G. Levine and Russell A. Stone. Author Index. Subject Index.
Allen H. Lebovits, Andrew Baum, Jerome E. Singer
