Supplemental Research Bulletin
Each issue of the biannual Supplemental Research Bulletin highlights articles, research, and literature reviews on topics of interest for disaster responders.
People With Substance Use Issues and Conditions and Disasters (PDF | 436 KB)
August 2024
This Supplemental Research Bulletin explores how disasters can disproportionately affect people who use substances and how to mitigate these effects through disaster preparedness and response strategies.
Climate Change and Behavioral Health (PDF | 285 KB)
May 2024
This Supplemental Research Bulletin explores the behavioral health impacts of climate and climate-related disasters and ways to enhance resilience. A related infographic (PDF | 2.9 MB) summarizes steps to build resilience.
Disaster Behavioral Health and Approaches to Community Response and Recovery (PDF | 2.3 MB)
August 2023
This Supplemental Research Bulletin highlights research exploring the mental health and substance use-related effects disasters have on individuals and communities. This issue focuses on the typical timeline of disaster behavioral health reactions at the community level to explore disaster impacts and highlight the Crisis Counseling Assistance and Training Program and other relevant intervention frameworks.
This Supplemental Research Bulletin explores potential solutions for providing behavioral health care in disaster response in rural and remote areas. It covers research on challenges and barriers and explores innovative methods to providing effective disaster behavioral health services in rural and remote communities.
This Supplemental Research Bulletin builds on preliminary research on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic to identify adaptations made to mental health and substance use disorder (SUD) treatment services under pandemic-related circumstances. It includes sections about the disruption of services due to the pandemic and the benefits and challenges of telehealth, telemedicine, and other innovations for delivering mental health and SUD services.
Disaster Behavioral Health Interventions Inventory (PDF | 834 KB)
May 2022
This Supplemental Research Bulletin identifies interventions that can be used in disaster-affected communities. It includes sections about immediate, intermediate, and long-term post-disaster interventions and sections about online and mobile application interventions. Summaries show intervention type, intervention settings, populations with whom the interventions may be most helpful, and other key information.
This Supplemental Research Bulletin reviews preliminary research on how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected mental health and substance use in the United States. It discusses the impacts of the pandemic, populations experiencing disproportionate impacts, and expert suggestions for supporting communities in and after the pandemic.
Women and Disasters (PDF | 389 KB)
October 2020
This Supplemental Research Bulletin focuses on women and disasters. Research included is about women in general, as well as insights on the experience of pregnant women and older women. It reflects on disaster preparedness, and the effects of disaster for females, who represent more than half of the U.S. population.
Disasters and People With Serious Mental Illness (PDF | 476 KB)
August 2019
This Supplemental Research Bulletin covers research on individuals with serious mental illness and disasters. It examines the effects of disaster on individuals with specific serious mental illnesses, risk and protective factors, and approaches to post-disaster mental health and substance-use related support.
This Supplemental Research Bulletin reviews research on mental health issues and conditions in children and youth after human-caused disasters. It follows up on the September 2018 Supplemental Research Bulletin, which covers the effects of natural disasters on children and youth.
Behavioral Health Conditions in Children and Youth Exposed to Natural Disasters (PDF | 296 KB)
September 2018
This Supplemental Research Bulletin reviews research on behavioral health issues and conditions in children and youth after natural disasters. It covers risk and protective factors, as well as approaches and interventions for supporting young survivors.
First Responders: Behavioral Health Concerns, Emergency Response, and Trauma (PDF | 264 KB)
May 2018
This issue of the Supplemental Research Bulletin focuses on behavioral health issues experienced by first responders. It also explores risk and protective factors, as well as interventions to reduce behavioral health risk and foster resilience.
Mass Violence and Behavioral Health (PDF | 327 KB)
September 2017
This issue of the Supplemental Research Bulletin discusses the effects of mass violence events and the sequence of behavioral health reactions after the event in adult and youth survivors. The issue also includes behavioral health interventions commonly used after a mass violence event.
Greater Impact: How Disasters Affect People of Low Socioeconomic Status (PDF | 380 KB)
July 2017
This issue of the Supplemental Research Bulletin focuses on how people in poverty, with low incomes, and of low socioeconomic status experience disasters, including risk perception, disaster preparedness, response, and recovery.
This issue of the Supplemental Research Bulletin focuses on selected programs and approaches that can be used to help whole communities fare better during and after disasters in terms of behavioral health.
Challenges and Considerations in Disaster Research (PDF | 300 KB)
January 2016
This issue of the Supplemental Research Bulletin reviews existing literature and provides a general summary of challenges experienced by disaster researchers in the field and offers potential solutions.
Traumatic Stress and Suicide After Disasters (PDF | 298 KB)
August 2015
This issue of the Supplemental Research Bulletin focuses on research highlights related to traumatic stress and suicide, including suicide rates, suicidal ideation, and suicide plans and attempts, in relation to disasters.
Disaster Behavioral Health Interventions Inventory (PDF | 811 KB)
May 2015
This Interventions Inventory Supplemental Research Bulletin lists disaster behavioral health interventions that can be used in the early, intermediate, and long-term disaster response phases, with the majority of survivors who experience the most common reactions. Each intervention is accompanied by a table that lists delivery modality and settings and populations for whom the interventions can be used.