Includes bibliographical references and index.

Where emergency management and disaster behavioral health meet / Nancy Dragani and Valerie L. Cole -- Where emergency management and disaster behavioral health meet / Rachel E. Kaul and Ronald Sherman -- Why is integrating disaster behavior health essential to emergency management? / Albert Ashwood, Steven Moskowitz, Brian W. Flynn, and Ronald Sherman -- Why is integrating emergency management essential to disaster behavioral health? / Anthony H. Speier and Ronald Sherman -- Integrations in disasters of different types, severity, and location / James M. Shultz, Marianne C. Jackson, Brian W. Flynn, and Ronald Sherman -- Not all disasters are the same / Daniel W. McGowan and James Siemianowski -- What can DBH actually do to make emergency managers jobs easier? / April J. Naturale and Lesli A. Rucker -- Expanding the tent / Laurence W. Zensinger, Gerard A. Jacobs, Brian W. Flynn, and Ronald Sherman -- Linking with private sector business and industry / Diana Nordboe and Susan Flanigan -- Integrations in the emergency operations system (EOC)/ emergency communications center (ECC) / John J. Brown, Jr., Chance A. Freeman, Brian W. Flynn, and Ronald Sherman -- Risk and crisis communications / Brian W. Flynn and John P. Philbin -- How to navigate external factors / Berl D. Jones, Jr. and Daniel Dodgen -- Sustaining integration / Brian W. Flynn and Ronald Sherman -- Conclusion/Summary / Brian W. Flynn and Ronald Sherman.

Includes DBH Professionals in Exercises and DrillsFocus on Shared Needs and Challenges; Monitor, Evaluate, and Revise the Nature and Success of Integration; 4 Why Is Integrating Emergency Management Essential to Disaster Behavioral Health? Challenges and Opportunities; Through a Disaster Behavioral Health Lens; The Culture of Emergency Management; The Culture of Disaster Behavioral Health; A Brief Review of Disaster Behavioral Health Literature (1977-2016); Integration Through the Assimilation of Two Cultures; Systemic Considerations.