Michael T. "Mick" Maurer, PhD, MHA is an Instructor for theone-year intensive Business Continuity & Homeland Security certificate program in The Center for Management of the Division of Business and Legal Studies of the School of Continuing and Professional Studies (SCPS)at New YorkUniversity (NYU)since 2004. He has been an Adjunct Assistant Professor in Adolescent Development, Educational Psychology and in Social Psychology for the Department of Applied Psychological Studies in the Steinhardt School of Education at New York University (NYU) since 2000, where he also continues to teach. He specializes in theImpact of Violence, Disaster, and War & Terrorism upon Adolescent Development. In October 2006 he will be addressing the New Jersey Primary Care Association and the New Jersey State Office of Rural Health convention on All-Hazards Mental Health.

Mickwas the founder and the first director of the Metropolitan College of New York's Master of Public Administration in Emergency & Disaster Management degree program. He had been a full time Associate Professor in the School for Public Affairs and Administration program at Metropolitan College of New York (MCNY) from September 2001 until August 2005.

He is a member of the Training and Education Committeeof the International Association of Emergency Managers; the American Society for Public Administration Section on Emergency and Crisis Management, the Section on Transportation Policy and Administration, and the Section on Public Administration Education. Mick served as a Fire Fighter Support Counselor, for the FEMA/CMHS/FDNY 9/11 Project Liberty Program at the Institute for Community Living, Inc. in Brooklyn, NY.Now serving his third year as a member of the NYC OEM Citizen Corps Council of NYC, where he serves on the Subcommittee forDisaster Public Education.A veteran of the Army, he trained as a medic and neuro-psychiatric/behavioral science specialist at the U.S. Army Academy of Health Sciences, BrookeArmyMedicalCenter, the US Army Medical Center at Okinawa and JohnsHopkinsUniversity.

Currently he is writing for Praeger Press Managing the Aftermath of Disaster: Reducing the Social and Psychological Impact on Communitiesas a title in the Praeger Series Disaster Trauma Psychology.Recent disasters ranging from the terrorist attacks on the TwinTowers to the Indian Ocean Tsunami and Hurricane Katrina left communities devastated, with some seeming to recover and suffer less traumatic stress than others. In this volume, an applied psychologist examines the social and psychological effects of disasters on communities, and identifies programs and policies that spurred resilience, or slowed recovery. Maurer explains how individual differences in values and coping styles work for or against both the individual and the greater community in the aftermath of tragedy, then he points out what can be done by leaders to enable and inspire recovery for the community.

Michael T. “Mick” Maurer, PhD, MHA

Department of Applied Psychology

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