1. Gupta et al have proposed a 9% depression attenuation separator to differentiate potential responders from potential non responders. This separator is small and is intuitively not logical; for example, a 10% figure would have made m&re sense. The choice of a non-intuitive figure suggests that the separation between responders and non responders was very narrow. In other words, response to th...

Two distinct fields, crisis intervention (which targets civilian populations) and disaster mental health services (which targets first responders), have emerged in response to natural and man-made disasters. As a consequence of 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, questions have been raised whether the occupational ecology of first responders has significantly changed. Two new concepts, the ‘‘high-risk ...