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This article describes how a mental health disaster response plan, which resulted from a collaborative effort between the Arkansas Department of Health and the Arkansas Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers, was used successfully to meet the needs of more than 1,000 displaced survivors of Hurricane Katrina. Included is a discussion of how the components of established disaster response protocols can be integrated with evolving theory on the psychological effect of catastrophic events on micro-, mezzo-, and macro-level systems to advance the field of disaster mental health response.

Back to table of contents Previous article Next article ArticleNo AccessA Guiding PhilosophyGranville JonesGranville JonesSearch for more papers by this authorPublished Online:1 Apr 2006https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.16.8.223-aAboutSectionsPDF/EPUB ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InEmail "A Guiding Philosophy." Psychiatric Services, 16(8), pp. 223-a–223 Access content To read the fulltext, please use one of the options below to sign in or purchase access. Personal login Institutional Login Sign in via OpenAthens Purchase Save for later Item saved, go to cart PPV Articles - Psychiatric Services $35.00 Add to cart PPV Articles - Psychiatric Services Checkout Please login/register if you wish to pair your device and check access availability. Not a subscriber? Subscribe Now / Learn More PsychiatryOnline subscription options offer access to the DSM-5 library, books, journals, CME, and patient resources. This all-in-one virtual library provides psychiatrists and mental health professionals with key resources for diagnosis, treatment, research, and professional development. Need more help? PsychiatryOnline Customer Service may be reached by emailing [email protected] or by calling 800-368-5777 (in the U.S.) or 703-907-7322 (outside the U.S.). FiguresReferencesCited byDetailsCited byNone Volume 16Issue 8 August 1965Pages 223-a-223 Metrics PDF download History Published online 1 April 2006 Published in print 1 August 1965

In a recent article,¹Thomas and Ivy decry the use of cholesterinized antigens in the Wassermann reaction, asserting that many positive results are obtained by them in non-syphilitic cases. Since Dec. 1, 1913, I have been using in my Wassermann work an antigen composed of human heart-extract plus 0.4 per cent. cholesterin as advocated by Walker and Swift.²Some of this was very kindly furnished me by Dr. Ralph W. Webster, while the remainder was prepared in my own laboratory. In all I have used the cholesterinized antigen in 356 tests. While this number is somewhat small from which to draw definite conclusions, it is larger than that of Thomas and Ivy, and my results have been so uniformly satisfactory that I unqualifiedly endorse the use of this antigen, even over the heads of such authorities. In beginning the use of the cholesterinized antigen I felt that a