Empirical/Scholarly Studies

2002

• "Posttrauma Intervention: Basic Tasks" (Spring, 2002, Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention)

2005

• "Katrina's Impact on Mental Health Likely to Last Years" (October 2005, JAMA)

2006

• "Community Mental Health Response to Crisis" (2006, Journal of Clinical Psychology)
• "The Impact of Disasters and Their Aftermath on Mental Health" (January 2006, Journal of Clinical Psychiatry)
• "Post-Katrina Mental Health Needs Prompt Group to Compile Disaster Medicine Guide" (January 2006, JAMA)
• "Katrina and the Collapse of Civil Society in New Orleans" (February 2006, Space and Culture)
• "Planning for Post-disaster Resiliency" (March 2006, ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science)
• "Weathering the Storm: The Impact of Hurricanes on Physical and Mental Health" (March 2006, ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science)
• "Moral Hazard, Social Catastrophe: The Changing Face of Vulnerability along the Hurricane Coasts" (March 2006, ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science)
• "Challenges in Implementing Disaster Mental Health Programs: State Program Directors’ Perspectives" (March 2006, ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science)
• "Rising to the Challenges of a Catastrophe: The Emergent and Prosocial Behavior following Hurricane Katrina" (March 2006, ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science)
• "Shelter from the Storm: Repairing the National Emergency Management System after Hurricane Katrina" (March 2006, ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science)
• "Challenges in Meeting Immediate Emotional Needs: Short-term Impact of a Major Disaster on Children's Mental Health: Building Resiliency in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina" (May 2006, Pediatrics)
• "Short-term Impact of a Major Disaster on Children’s Mental Health: Building Resiliency in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina" (July 2006, Pediatrics)
• "Social and Mental Health Needs Assessment of Katrina Evacuees" (July - September 2006, Disaster Management Response)
• "Mental Health and Recovery in the Gulf Coast After Hurricanes Katrina and Rita" (August 2006, JAMA)
• "Community Mental Health Response to Crisis" (August 2006, Journal of Clinical Psychology)
• "Guest Editorial: God's Gon' Trouble the Water: An African American Academic's Retrospective on Hurricane Katrina" (Fall 2006, Journal of Negro Education)
• "Hope After Katrina: Will New Orleans Become the New City of Choice?" (Fall 2006, Education Next)
• "Responding to Disaster: Balancing the Risks of Doing Nothing or Doing Harm" (September 2006, The Behavior Therapist)
• "Post-Katrina Mental Health Care in Mississippi: Lessons Learned" (September 2006, The Behavior Therapist)
• "Federal Report Documents Extensive Discrimination Against Katrina Evacuees with Psychiatric Disabilities" (September 2006, Psychiatric Services)
• "A Year Later" (September 2006, Diverse: Issues in Higher Education)
• "Federal Health Policy Response to Hurricane Katrina: What It Was and What It Could Have Been" (September 2006, Journal of the American Medical Association)
• "Lessons Learned from a Bout with Hurricane Katrina: The Delgado College Community Story" (September - October 2006, Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning)
• "Defining and Working with the New Normal after 9/11 and Katrina" (November 2006, Journal of Psychosocial Nursing & Mental Health Services)
• "Post-Katrina Fixes Really Drive Home Our Humanity" (November 2006, Education Digest)
• "Comparative Analysis of Three Crisis Intervention Models Applied to Law Enforcement First Responders During 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina" (November 2006, Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention)
• "Hallowed Ground, Place, and Culture: The Cemetery and the Creation of Place" (November 2006, Space and Culture)
• "Review of the Kindness of Strangers" (November 2006, Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing)
• "Murder or Mercy? Hurricane Katrina and the Need for Disaster Training" (November 2006, New England Journal of Medicine)
• "Shelter Life after Hurricane Katrina: A Visual Analysis of Evacuee Perspectives" (November 2006, Education Digest)
• "Mental Health Preparedness for Trauma Includes Addiction and Chronic Pain" (December 2006, Journal of Addictions Nursing)
• "Making Sense of New Orleans Flood Trauma Recovery: Ethics, Research Design, and Policy Considerations for Future Disasters" (December 2006, Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy)
• "A Problematic Integration Approach to Capturing the Cognitive, Cultural, and Communicative Experiences of Hurricane Katrina Volunteers" (December 2006, Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy)
• "Perceptions of Racism in Hurricane Katrina: A Liberation Psychology Analysis" (December 2006, Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy)
• "To Help or Not to Help? Factors that Determined Helping Responses to Katrina Victims" (December 2006, Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy)
• "The Racial Divide in Response to the Aftermath of Katrina: A Boundary Condition for Common Ingroup Identity Model" (December 2006, Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy)
• "Institutional Discrimination, Individual Racism, and Hurricane Katrina" (December 2006, Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy)
• "Hurricane Katrina's Impact on African Americans' and European Americans' Endorsement of the Protestant Work Ethic" (December 2006, Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy)
• "Race and Media Coverage of Hurricane Katrina: Analysis, Implications, and Future Research Questions" (December 2006, Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy)
• "Contested Interpretations of Economic Inequality Following Hurricane Katrina" (December 2006, Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy)
• "System Justification in Responding to the Poor and Displaced in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina" (December 2006, Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy)
• "Stranded by Katrina : Past and Present" (December 2006, Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy)
• "Predicting Emergency Evacuation and Sheltering Behavior: A Structured Analytical Approach" (December 2006, Analytical Approach)
• "Why Katrina's Victims Aren't Refugees: Musing on a "Dirty" World" (December 2006, American Anthropologist)
• "Bearing Witness: Assumptions, Realities, and the Otherizing of Katrina" (December 2006, American Anthropologist)
• "Hurricane Katrina: Resiliency, The Other Side of Tragedy" (December 2006, Federal Probation)
• "Finding a Place for the Commonplace: Hurricane Katrina, Communities, and Preservation Law" (December 2006, American Anthropologist)
• "Mental Illness and Suicidality after Hurricane Katrina" (December 2006, Bulletin of the World Health Organization)
• "What's Next for New Orleans?" (December - January 2006-07, The High School Journal)
• "Rebuilding Inequity: The Re-Emergence of the School-to-Prison Pipeline in New Orleans" (December - January 2006-07, High School Journal)
• "Hurricane Katrina: Medical Response at the Houston Astrodome" (September 2006, Southern Medical Journal)
• "The Louisiana Emergency Department Behavioral Health Challenge" (American Academy of Political and Social Science)

2007

• "Facilitating Effective Coping in Children Following Disasters: A Psychoanalytically Informed Guided Narrative Intervention" (Winter 2007, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association)
• "Student Affairs and Hurricane Katrina: Contextual Perspectives from Five Institutions of Higher Education in New Orleans" (January 2007, NASPA Journal)
• "The Plight of the Education Systems - Post Hurricane Katrina: An Interview with Dr. Brenda Mitchell and Dr. Linda Stelly" (January 2007, High School Journal)
• "Dismantling a Community Timeline" (January 2007, High School Journal)
• "Aid in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina: Inferences of Secondary Emotions and Intergroup Helping" (January 2007, Group Processes & Intergroup Relations)
• "Swept Away: Use of General Medicine and Mental Health Services Among Veterans Displaced by Hurricane Katrina" (January 2007, American Journal of Psychiatry)
• "Disaster Response and the Mental Health Counselor" (January 2007, Journal of Mental Health Counseling)
• "Confronting the Realities of Volunteering for a National Disaster" (January 2007, Journal of Mental Health Counseling)
• "Forced Abandonment and Euthanasia: A Question from Katrina" (January 2007, Social Research)
• "Do You Know What It Means: Mapping Emotion in the Aftermath of Katrina" (January - March 2007, Souls)
• "The New Orleans that Race Built: Racism, Disaster and Urban Spatial Relationships" (January - March 2007, Souls)
• "San Antonio Mental Health Disaster Consortium: Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, A Personal Perspective" (February 2007, Perspectives in Psychiatric Care)
• "Vulnerable Populations in an American Red Cross Shelter after Hurricane Katrina" (February 2007, Perspectives in Psychiatric Care)
• "Disaster Response and Group Self-Care" (February 2007, Perspectives in Psychiatric Care)
• "Loss of Identity in Disaster: How do you say Goodbye to Home?" (February 2007, Perspectives in Psychiatric Care)
• "Vulnerability and All that Jazz: Addressing Vulnerability in New Orleans After Hurricane Katrina" (February 2007, Perspectives in Psychiatric Care)
• "Living in Health and Mental Health Despite Poverty" (February 2007, Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association)
• "Things Fall Apart: Disaster, Infrastructure, and Risk" (February 2007, Social Studies of Science)
• "Environmental Justice and Expert Knowledge in the Wake of a Disaster" (February 2007, Social Studies of Science)
• "Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans? Internet Communication, Geographic Community, and Social Capital in Crisis" (February 2007, Journal of Applied Communication Research)
• "Hurricane Stories, from Within" (February 2007, Social Studies of Science)
• "The Day After the Hurricane: Infrastructure, Order, and the New Orleans Police Department's Response to Hurricane Katrina" (February 2007, Social Studies of Science)
• "Predisaster Trait Anxiety and Negative Affect Predict Posttraumatic Stress in Youths after Hurricane Katrina" (February 2007, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology)
• "The Next Disaster: Are you Ready?" (February 2007, Perspectives in Psychiatric Care)
• "San Antonio Mental Health Disaster Consortium: Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, A Personal Perspective" (February 2007, Perspectives in Psychiatric Care)
• "Vulnerable Populations in an American Red Cross Shelter After Hurricane Katrina" (February 2007, Perspectives in Psychiatric Care)
• "Disaster Response and Group Self-Care" (February 2007, Perspectives in Psychiatric Care)
• "Loss of Identity in Disaster: How do you Say Goodbye to Home?" (February 2007, Perspectives in Psychiatric Care)
• "Mental Health Needs of Disaster Volunteers:  A Plea for Awareness" (February 2007, Perspectives in Psychiatric Care)
• "Pharmacologic Management of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder" (February 2007, Perspectives in Psychiatric Care)
• "Hazard and Outrage: Developing a Psychometric Instrument in the Aftermath of Katrina" (February 2007, Journal of Applied Communication Research)
• "The Dirty Dozen: Twelve Failures of the Hurricane Katrina Response and How Psychology Can Help" (February/March 2007, American Psychologist)
• "Weathering the Storm: A Social Marketing Perspective on Disaster Preparedness and Response with Lessons from Hurricane Katrina" (Spring 2007, Journal of Public Policy & Marketing)
• "Finding Holism in Disaster: A Story of Katrina's Aftermath" (March 2007, Journal of Holistic Nursing)
• "Preparing for Critical Infrastructure Breakdowns: The Limits of Crisis Management and the Need for Resilience" (March 2007, Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management)
• "Survival and Death in New Orleans: An Empirical Look at the Human Impact of Katrina" (March 2007, Journal of Black Studies)
• "Feeling the Pain of My People: Hurricane Katrina, Racial Inequality, and the Psyche of Black America" (March 2007, Journal of Black Studies)
• "Continually Neglected: Situating Natural Disasters in the African American Experience" (March 2007, Journal of Black Studies)
• "Katrina: Race, Class, and Poverty: Reflections and Analysis" (March 2007, Journal of Black Studies)
• "Crisis Communication, Race, and Natural Disasters" (March 2007, Journal of Black Studies)
• "Bon Feerey: A Teaching and Learning Mythodology for Healing the Wounds of Distance, Displacement, and Loss Caused by Hurricane Katrina" (March 2007, Journal of Black Studies)
• "Symptoms of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in a New Orleans Workforce Following Hurricane Katrina" (April 2007, Technology in Society)
• "Wading in the Waters: Spirituality and Older Black Katrina Survivors" (May 2007, Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved)
• "News, Social Capital and Health in the Context of Katrina" (May 2007, Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved)
• "The Hurricane Choir: Remote Mental Health Monitoring of Participants in a Community-based Intervention in the Post-Katrina Period" (May 2007, Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved)
• "Mental Health Interventions by Telephone with Katrina Survivors" (May 2007, Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved)
• "If Not Us, Than Who? Performing Pedagogies of Hope in Post-Katrina America" (May 2007, Cultural Studies)
• "Community Organizing for Post-Disaster Social Development: Locating Social Work" (May 2007, International Social Work)
• "Katrina and the Cat: Responding to Society's Expendables" (May 2007, Cultural Studies)
• "Katrina and the Banshee's Wall: The Racialization of Class Exploitation" (May 2007, Cultural Studies)
• "Mental Health Interventions by Telephone with Katrina Survivors" (May 2007, Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved)
• "They Blew the Levee: Distrust of Authorities among Hurricane Katrina Evacuees" (May 2007, Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved)
• "The Katrina Hurricane Spectacle and Crisis of the Bush Presidency" (May 2007, Cultural Studies)
• "Katrina and Vulnerability: The geography of Stress" (May 2007, Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved)
• "Katrina-Related Health Concerns of Latino Survivors and Evacuees" (May 2007, Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved)
• "The Resuscitation of a New Orleans Substance Abuse Treatment Agency After Hurricane Katrina" (May 2007, Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved)
• "What are the Watchdogs for Children Planning for 2007" (May 2007, Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing)
• "Hurricane Katrina: Disasters Teach Us and We Must Learn" (May - June 2007, Academic Psychiatry)
• "In the Eye of Katrina: Surviving the Storm and Rebuilding an Academic Department of Psychiatry" (May - June 2007, Academic Psychiatry)
• "Opportunity Missed: A Lesson Learned from Evacuating Mentally Ill Patients Following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita" (May - June 2007, Academic Psychiatry)
• "Lessons Learned from Katrina: One Department's Perspective" (May - June 2007, Academic Psychiatry)
• "Katrina Relief: Lessons from the Academic Medical Center" (May - June 2007, Academic Psychiatry)
• "Psychiatric Issues and Answers Following Hurricane Katrina" (May - June 2007, Academic Psychiatry)
• "What are the Watchdogs for Children Planning for 2007: Part II" (August 2007, Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing)
• "Abandoned and Abused: Prisoners in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina: National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union" (August 2007, Institute of Race Relations)
• "City Yearns for Rebirth among Ruin" (August 2007, Education Week)
• "Responding to Disasters: Academic Medical Centers' Responsibilities and Opportunities" (August 2007, Academic Medicine)
• "Feasibility and Effectiveness of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Preschool Children: Two Case Reports" (August 2007, Journal of Traumatic Stress)
• "Tulane University: From Recovery to Renewal" (Summer 2007, Liberal Education)
• "Squeezing Public Education: History and Ideology Gang Up on New Orleans" (Summer 2007, Liberal Education)
• "Suffering a Slow Recovery" (September 2007, Scientific American)
• "Murder Rates in New Orleans, LA, 2004 - 2006" (September 2007, American Journal of Public Health)
• "The Katrina Kids" (September 2007, Exceptional Parent)
• "The Psychosocial Impact of Hurricane Katrina: Contextual Differences in Psychological Symptoms, Social Support, and Discrimination" (October 2007, Behavior Research and Therapy)
• "Clinical Presentation and Therapeutic Interventions for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Post-Katrina" (October 2007, Archives of Psychiatric Nursing)
• "Schools' Mental Health Responses after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita" (October 2007, Psychiatry Services)
• "Up from the Ruins" (October 2007, Education Week)
• "The Psychosocial Impact of Hurricane Katrina: Contextual Differences in Psychological Symptoms, Social Support, and Discrimination" (October 2007, Behavior Research and Therapy)
• "Economic Vulnerability, Discrimination, and Hurricane Katrina: Health among Black Katrina Survivors in Eastern New Orleans" (October 2007, Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association)
• "Drowning the Crescent City: Told Stories of Katrina" (November 2007, Cultural Studies)
• "New Teachers Are New Orleans Norm" (November 2007, Education Week)
• "A Louisiana Psychologist's Experience with Hurricane Katrina and Rita" (November 2007, Psychological Services)
• "Mental Health Service Use Among Hurricane Katrina Survivors in the Eight Months After the Disaster" (November 2007, Psychiatric Services)
• "'Came Hell and High Water': The Intersection of Hurricane Katrina, the News Media, Race and Poverty" (November/December 2007, Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology)
• "'Violence, Katrina, and the Biopolitics of Disposability" (2007, Theory, Culture & Society)
• "Clinical Research After Catastrophic Disasters- Lessons Learned From Hurricane Katrina" (Professional Psychology: Research and Pratice)
• "Post-Katrina provision of health care to veterans in a mobile clinic- providers' perspectives" (Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners)
• "SWiF: A Rapid Triage Tool for Vulnerable Older Adults in Disaster Situations" (American Medical Assosciation)

2008

• "Claiborne Encampment Survey Results" (February 2008, Claiborne Encampment)
• "The Long Road Home: Rebuilding Public Inpatient Psychiatric Services in Post-Katrina New Orleans" (March 2008, Psychiatric)
• "Disruption of Existing Mental Health Treatments and Failure to Initiate New Treatment After Hurricane Katrina" (January 2008, Am J Psychiatry)
• "Medium-term Post-Katrina Health Sequelae Among New Orleans Residents: Predictors of Poor Mental and Physical Health" (Journal of Clinical Nursing)
• "Prevalence and Predictors of Mental Health Distress Post-Katrina- Findings From the Gulf Coast Child and Family Health Study" (American Medical Association)
• "Use of Mental Health Services Among Disaster Survivors" (Current Opinion in Psychiatry)

2009

• "Differences in Emotional Well-being of Hurricane Survivors- A Secondary Analysis of the ABC News Hurricane Katrina Anniversary Poll" (June 2009, Archives of Psychiatric Nursing)
• "Disseminating Evidence-based Treatments for PTSD in Organizational Settings- A high Priority Focus Area" (Behaviour Research and Therapy)
• "Factors Predicting Crisis Counselor Referrals to Other Crisis Counseling, Disaster Relief, and Psychological Services:  A Cross-Site Analysis of Post-Katrina Programs" (US Department of Veteran Affairs)
• "Improving Disaster Mental Health Care in Schools - A Community-Partnered Approach" (Am J Prev Med)
• "Mental Health Needs in a Post-disaster Environment" (Journal of Psychosocial Nursing)
• "One year later: Mental Illness Prevalence and Disparities Among New Orleans Residents Displaced by Hurricane Katrina" (American Journal of Public Health)
• Promoting Mental Health Recovery After Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: What Can Be Done at What Cost" (Arch Gen Psychiatry)
• "Serious Emotional Disturbance Among Youths Exposed to Hurricane Katrina 2 Years Postdisaster" (American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry)
• "The Role of the Dopamine Transporter (DAT) in the Development of PTSD in Preschool Children" (Journal of Traumatic Stress)