Heroes Are Human: Lessons in Resilience, Courage, and Wisdom from the COVID Front Lines
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Overview
This book is a must-read for health care workers who have been besieged by the ongoing pandemic, for those who love them, and for any reader wanting to gain a deeper understanding of their immense sacrifices and struggles. Heroes are Human also offers invaluable self-care insights in the face of trauma. The book’s central voice and guide, Bob Delaney, is an internationally respected and experienced figure in the field of post-traumatic stress. His powerful message to front-line caregivers is that they are not alone.
Delaney, along with co-author and award-winning journalist Dave Scheiber, published Covert: My Years Infiltrating the Mob (Sterling Publishing, 978-1-4027-5442-2, Hardcover, 2008; 978-1-4027-6714-2, trade paper, 2009) and Surviving the Shadows: A Journey of Hope into Post-traumatic Stress (Sourcebooks, 978-1-4022-6355-2, 2011).
Covert is the true story of Delaney’s undercover life in a landmark 1970s Mafia investigation, dubbed “Project Alpha,” for which he risked his life wearing a wire as a young New Jersey State Trooper, taking on a new identity as a mob associate. He also writes about his overcoming PTSD through the sport of basketball, and career as an elite NBA referee.
Surviving the Shadows tells the stories of brave men and women whose lives were plunged into despair by post-traumatic stress but who learned to cope, with Delaney’s help, by sharing their struggles with others who underwent similar trauma.
For more than a quarter of a century, Delaney was a fixture as a referee on the hardwood courts of the National Basketball Association (NBA). But what Delaney did—and has done—off the courts defines his true legacy: It is his less visible, life-saving work of the last four decades, helping active members and veterans of the U.S. armed forces, law enforcement, fire fighters, and first responders—the often under-appreciated heroes who put their lives on the line for the rest of us every day—cope with the devastating effects of post-traumatic stress.
Delaney comes by his healing wisdom from hard-won experience. He learned about PTSD first-hand, developing the condition after emerging from his grueling and prolonged undercover work. Helping others suffering from the debilitating effects of post-traumatic has been a driving force in his life.
Former President Barack Obama and senior-ranking military leaders have honored Delaney for his contributions to PTSD awareness—stemming from his multiple visits with U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, and throughout Europe, Asia, and the United States.
In addition, Delaney was twice awarded the U.S. Army Outstanding Civilian Service Medal, presented by General Raymond T. Odierno (retired U.S. Army Chief of Staff) and Four-Star General (ret.) Robert W. Cone. In 2020, the NCAA bestowed its highest honor on him: the Theodore Roosevelt Award, previously given four U.S. presidents (Dwight Eisenhower, Gerald Ford, George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan). More recently, Delaney has become deeply involved with the prestigious Harvard Global Mental Health initiative, which focuses on traumas and psychological burdens experienced throughout the world.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781947951549 |
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Publisher: | City Point Press |
Publication date: | 09/27/2022 |
Pages: | 256 |
Sales rank: | 1,088,642 |
Product dimensions: | 5.50(w) x 8.60(h) x 1.10(d) |
About the Author
Dave Scheiber is a national award-winning journalist and author. In addition to co-authoring Covert and Surviving the Shadows with Delaney, he has co-authored Position to Win: A Look at Baseball and Life from the Best Seat in the House (with Tampa Bay Rays baseball announcer Dewayne Staats), the Voice of Business: The Man Who Transformed the United States Chamber of Commerce (with Dr. Richard Lesher) and To Be Frank: Building the American Dream in Business and Life (with philanthropist Frank Morsani). He is a past first-place winner in the prestigious National Headliner Award, the Green Eyeshade Awards, and the Associated Press Sports Editors writing contest, and a member of a Tampa Bay Times investigative team nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Dave has authored stories appearing in publications from the Washington Post to Sports Illustrated to many more outlets.
Richard F. Mollica, MD, MAR, is Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and Director of the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma (HPRT) at Massachusetts General Hospital. Since 1981, Dr. Mollica and HPRT have pioneered the medical and mental health care of survivors of mass violence and torture in the U.S. and abroad. Under his direction, the HPRT conducts clinical, training, policy, and research activities for populations affected by mass violence around the world. He is currently active in clinical work, research, and the development of a Global Mental Health curriculum, focusing on trauma and recovery. The Global Mental Health: Trauma and Recovery certificate program at HMS is the first of its kind in global mental health and post- conflict/disaster care. The program now has 1000 alumni working in over 85 countries. Dr. Mollica also co-founded with his Italian colleagues the Italian National Trauma Center (INTC). The INTC focuses on recovery in the central Italian earthquake zone (Norcia) and on care of COVID-19 survivors (Rome). Dr. Mollica has published over 160 scientific manuscripts. His first book was Healing Invisible Wounds: Paths to Hope and Recovery in a Violent World (2006), and his most recent book is A Manifesto: Healing a Violent World (2018).
Table of Contents
Foreword Dr. Richard Mollica, Director, Harvard Global Mental Health xv
Preface: In Search of a Finish Line
Chapter 1 Covert No More 3
Chapter 2 Human Touch Maternity Care Nurse Emily Grace 18
Chapter 3 Understanding Resiliency 33
Military Psychologist Dr. Michael Matthews, U.S.M.A., West Point
Chapter 4 In the Eye of the Storm 48
Hospitalist Dr. A.J. Yung, Infectious Disease Administrator Dr. Elsa Potter
Chapter 5 Service Above Self 70
Emergency and Oncology Nurse Leah Churchill
Chapter 6 A Healing Place 91
COVID-19 Survivor John Place and Wife Michelle Place
Chapter 7 Behind the Front Lines 119
Hospital Administrator Dr. Andrejs E. Avots-Avotins Nursing Supervisor Kathleen Donlon Hospital Logistics Executive Julio Carrillo
Chapter 8 Game Changers 135
COVID-19 ICU Nurse Manager Suzie Dorner
Chapter 9 No Boundaries 152
Maria Leister, Refugee Trauma Expert, Harvard Global Mental Health
Rev. Dr. Frederick J. Streets, Yale University Chaplain and Human Rights Leader
Chapter 10 My Friend Hank 175
Dr. Hank Litvin, Korean War Medic and Retired Family Physician
Epilogue 195
Postscript: Overtime 199
Harvard Global Mental Health Self-Care Pocket Card 209
Acknowledgments 213
About the Authors 217