James E McCarroll
Biographic Data
| ID | 5508683 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James E McCarroll |
| GIVEN NAMES | James E |
| FAMILY NAME | McCarroll |
| SIGNATURE | MCCARROLL J E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7537-5016 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Child Maltreatment Fatality Review: Purposes, Processes, Outcomes, and Challenges
Better understanding of the causes and circumstances of maltreatment deaths of children is needed to prevent tragedy. The purpose of this article is to facilitate understanding of child maltreatment fatality review processes and their outcomes. A literature review was conducted through searches of the databases PubMed, PsycINFO, and EMBASE and through citations in publications. Over 165 publications were reviewed and 55 were selected for inclusio…
Military Families: Measurement of Community Resource Adequacy
Understanding features of community strength both on and off the military installation will help identify and address the needs of military families. This study introduced a measure to identify adequacy of community resources for military families. Using confirmatory factor analysis with data from 717 service users (M age = 37.3 yr., SD = 10.6) representing four large U.S. Army installations, two domains of community resource adequacy were identi…
Stress and Resilience in Military Mortuary Workers: Care of the Dead From Battlefield to Home
The death of a military service member in war provokes feelings of distress and pride in mortuary workers who process the remains. To further understand their reactions, the authors interviewed 34 military and civilian personnel to learn more about their work stresses and rewards. They review stresses of anticipation, exposure, and experience in handling the dead and explore the personal, supervisory, and leadership strategies to reduce negative …
Spousal aggression by U.S. Army female soldiers toward employed and unemployed civilian husbands
Aggression by a random sample of female soldiers (N = 1,185) toward their employed (n = 840) and unemployed (n = 345) civilian husbands was measured by the Conflict Tactics Scale. When age, race, rank, years married, and the number of previous marriages were held constant, severe aggression toward unemployed male spouses was significantly greater than toward employed spouses
Somatic Symptoms in Gulf War Mortuary Workers
OBJECTIVE: The objective of this article is to examine the relationship between exposures to the dead and the development of somatic symptoms. METHODS: We studied the pre-post responses of 352 military men and women who worked in the mortuary that received the dead from the Persian Gulf War (Operation Desert Storm) in 1990 to 1991. Symptoms of somatization were measured before and after exposure to the dead. The respondents were volunteers and no…
Spouse Abuse by Black and White Offenders in the U.S. Army
Working with traumatic material: Effects on Holocaust Memorial Museum staff
Preparation for the opening of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., in April 1993, exposed workers to potentially disturbing personal artifacts of Holocaust victims and other reminders of the horrors of the Holocaust. The process of psychological consultation is described, and the resultant approaches to interventions designed to lower distress among museum workers and volunteers are discussed
Handling bodies after violent death: Strategies for coping
Interviews with and observations of experienced and inexperienced personnel were conducted to determine their coping strategies before, during, and after their work with the bodies of people who had died violently. Avoidance, denial, and social support from the work group and spouse appeared to facilitate coping. The implications of these findings for therapeutic intervention are discussed
Community consultation following a major air disaster
United Airlines flight 232 crashed at Sioux City, Iowa, on July 19, 1989. The primary rescue workers were the men and women from the 185th Air National Guard Group. Because of the many deaths and massive destruction caused by the crash, a psychiatric consultation team was requested by the U.S. Air Force Surgeon General to assist the Air National Guard personnel. The consultation had four goals: (1) provide consultation to the Air National Guard o…
Psychological responses of rescue workers: Fire fighters and trauma
The psychological responses of two groups of fire fighters were examined following the performance of rescue work. Four types of responses were reported: identification with the victims, feelings of helplessness and guilt, fear of the unknown, and physiological reactions. Stress was found to be mediated by availability of social support, type of leadership, level of training, and use of rituals. Implications of these findings for preventive inter…
Avoidance Learning and Retention as a Function of Type of Apparatus and CS Interval
The avoidance behavior of rats was observed under the conditions of a jumping or a running apparatus paired with a 5- or a 10-sec. CS interval. It was determined that the latency of S's response late in acquisition was dependent on the duration of CS interval but independent of the type of apparatus. Trials to criterion of acquisition indicated that Ss in the running apparatus required more trials than those in the jumping apparatus. After 3 days…
Analysis of Three Stimulation-Seeking Scales
3 measures of stimulation seeking were administered to 128 pre-freshman students and 97 general psychology students. Normative data were provided and compared with previous data. Significantly higher means and correlations among scales were obtained for the general psychology students than for the pre-freshman students. It is possible that the Sensation-seeking Scale (SSS) tends to measure more variable characteristics than SVS or CSI. However, i…
Stress and Resilience in Military Mortuary Workers: Care of the Dead From Battlefield to Home
The death of a military service member in war provokes feelings of distress and pride in mortuary workers who process the remains. To further understand their reactions, the authors interviewed 34 military and civilian personnel to learn more about their work stresses and rewards. They review stresses of anticipation, exposure, and experience in handling the dead and explore the personal, supervisory, and leadership strategies to reduce negative …
Spouse Abuse by Black and White Offenders in the U.S. Army
Avoidance Learning and Retention as a Function of Type of Apparatus and CS Interval
The avoidance behavior of rats was observed under the conditions of a jumping or a running apparatus paired with a 5- or a 10-sec. CS interval. It was determined that the latency of S's response late in acquisition was dependent on the duration of CS interval but independent of the type of apparatus. Trials to criterion of acquisition indicated that Ss in the running apparatus required more trials than those in the jumping apparatus. After 3 days…
Analysis of Three Stimulation-Seeking Scales
3 measures of stimulation seeking were administered to 128 pre-freshman students and 97 general psychology students. Normative data were provided and compared with previous data. Significantly higher means and correlations among scales were obtained for the general psychology students than for the pre-freshman students. It is possible that the Sensation-seeking Scale (SSS) tends to measure more variable characteristics than SVS or CSI. However, i…
Community consultation following a major air disaster
United Airlines flight 232 crashed at Sioux City, Iowa, on July 19, 1989. The primary rescue workers were the men and women from the 185th Air National Guard Group. Because of the many deaths and massive destruction caused by the crash, a psychiatric consultation team was requested by the U.S. Air Force Surgeon General to assist the Air National Guard personnel. The consultation had four goals: (1) provide consultation to the Air National Guard o…
Psychological responses of rescue workers: Fire fighters and trauma
The psychological responses of two groups of fire fighters were examined following the performance of rescue work. Four types of responses were reported: identification with the victims, feelings of helplessness and guilt, fear of the unknown, and physiological reactions. Stress was found to be mediated by availability of social support, type of leadership, level of training, and use of rituals. Implications of these findings for preventive inter…
Handling bodies after violent death: Strategies for coping
Interviews with and observations of experienced and inexperienced personnel were conducted to determine their coping strategies before, during, and after their work with the bodies of people who had died violently. Avoidance, denial, and social support from the work group and spouse appeared to facilitate coping. The implications of these findings for therapeutic intervention are discussed
Working with traumatic material: Effects on Holocaust Memorial Museum staff
Preparation for the opening of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., in April 1993, exposed workers to potentially disturbing personal artifacts of Holocaust victims and other reminders of the horrors of the Holocaust. The process of psychological consultation is described, and the resultant approaches to interventions designed to lower distress among museum workers and volunteers are discussed
Spouse Abuse by Black and White Offenders in the U.S. Army
Somatic Symptoms in Gulf War Mortuary Workers
OBJECTIVE: The objective of this article is to examine the relationship between exposures to the dead and the development of somatic symptoms. METHODS: We studied the pre-post responses of 352 military men and women who worked in the mortuary that received the dead from the Persian Gulf War (Operation Desert Storm) in 1990 to 1991. Symptoms of somatization were measured before and after exposure to the dead. The respondents were volunteers and no…
Spousal aggression by U.S. Army female soldiers toward employed and unemployed civilian husbands
Aggression by a random sample of female soldiers (N = 1,185) toward their employed (n = 840) and unemployed (n = 345) civilian husbands was measured by the Conflict Tactics Scale. When age, race, rank, years married, and the number of previous marriages were held constant, severe aggression toward unemployed male spouses was significantly greater than toward employed spouses
Stress and Resilience in Military Mortuary Workers: Care of the Dead From Battlefield to Home
The death of a military service member in war provokes feelings of distress and pride in mortuary workers who process the remains. To further understand their reactions, the authors interviewed 34 military and civilian personnel to learn more about their work stresses and rewards. They review stresses of anticipation, exposure, and experience in handling the dead and explore the personal, supervisory, and leadership strategies to reduce negative …
Military Families: Measurement of Community Resource Adequacy
Understanding features of community strength both on and off the military installation will help identify and address the needs of military families. This study introduced a measure to identify adequacy of community resources for military families. Using confirmatory factor analysis with data from 717 service users (M age = 37.3 yr., SD = 10.6) representing four large U.S. Army installations, two domains of community resource adequacy were identi…
Child Maltreatment Fatality Review: Purposes, Processes, Outcomes, and Challenges
Better understanding of the causes and circumstances of maltreatment deaths of children is needed to prevent tragedy. The purpose of this article is to facilitate understanding of child maltreatment fatality review processes and their outcomes. A literature review was conducted through searches of the databases PubMed, PsycINFO, and EMBASE and through citations in publications. Over 165 publications were reviewed and 55 were selected for inclusio…
Psychology (11 works) · Medicine (10 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works) · Medical emergency (5 works) · Poison control (5 works) · Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research (5 works) · Psychiatry (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Suicide prevention (4 works)