The goal of the comprehensive trauma center (CTC) is to help survivors and/or victims re-empower themselves, restore wholeness and meaning, and integrate the trauma(s) they have experienced into their lives so that they are no longer at the mercy of those external events. The CTCs described in this book vary in type and form but seek to provide a variety of services to victims and/or survivors by complementing and coordinating services with existing programs.
1. The Comprehensive Trauma Center as an Organization: Basic Concepts from Organizational Theory.- 2. The Need for Comprehensive Trauma Centers: The State of Trauma in the World Today.- 3. Privately Developed Trauma Centers in the United States.- 4. Centers with Affiliations and Centers in Progress.- 5. Private and Not-for-Profit Centers around the World.- 6. Nonresidential Affiliated Centers throughout the World.- 7. Centers Specializing in Trauma and the Workplace.- 8. Hospital-Based Trauma Centers.- 9. Centers for Holocaust Survivors and Their Families.- 10. Centers Designed to Work with Refugees.- 11. Trauma Centers for Children.- 12. Government Funded Trauma Centers.- 13. The Experts View of What Trauma Is and How to Treat It.- 14. Trauma Center Directors Describe the Ideal Trauma Center.- 15. Constructing the Ideal Trauma Center: Reflections, Recommendations, and Realities.- 16. The Hamburg Experience: Providing Services in War-Torn Environments.- References.- Appendixes.- I. Terms and Abbreviations.- II. Trauma Centers and Their Addresses.- III. The Research Protocol.