title: Sharing stories, healing shattered lives.
abstract: Because of our capacity to provide crisis-oriented mental health services in the field throughout the city, we have played a role as one element of New York's emergency mental health response system. Our goal in the aftermath of September 11, 2001, is to allow the victims to tell their stories. By sharing their stories, individuals start the process of moving from helpless victims to proactive survivors.
authors.affiliation: Community Mental Health Services of the Visting Nurse Service of New York, USA. npessin@vnsny.org
authors.forename: Neil
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Pessin
authors.forename: David C
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: Lindy
authors.forename: Keri
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hicks
authors.forename: Arthur
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dreschler
mesh_terms: D000401:Aircraft; D000739:Anecdotes as Topic; D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004189:Disaster Planning; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology; D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans; D009519:New York City; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000451:nursing*; D023481:Terrorism / Q000523:psychology*