Case Study

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Disaster Behavioral Health
Randal Beaton, PhD, EMT

• Case Study

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Case Study Boise Airport Crash

• A passenger airliner with over 100 passengers on
  board loses altitude shortly after takeoff,
  crashing into a nearby chemical facility.

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Case Study Boise Airport Crash

• Preliminary assessment
• 80 fatalities
• 37 seriously burned and injured.
• What are the behavioral health implications of
  this disaster for community members?

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Case Study Boise Airport Crash

• What are the behavioral health implications of
  this disaster for
• Rescue personnel?
• First receivers?
• Seriously injured and burned survivors?

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Case Study Boise Airport Crash

• What are the behavioral health implications of
  this disaster for
• Surviving family members?
• Other airline employeeswho also lost
  co-workers?

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Case Study Boise Airport Crash

• What are the behavioral health implications of
  this disaster for
• Chemical facility workers who may nowbe
  unemployed and who may have lostco-workers?
• Crash investigators?