In addition, information gained from this study may assist in planning for future humanitarian crises involving large numbers of displaced women and children.
Our political masters should look at the current benighted state of Britain and conclude that it is time to start planning for a post-crisis world.
But it's hard to win an election by talking up and planning for a fiscal crisis; you don't gain friends by proposing less spending or more taxes.
Therefore, it is difficult to prevent or plan for all crises.
Therefore, it is very difficult to prevent or plan for all crises even if there is a willingness to create a strategic plan.
The programme followed the original MBCT manual (Segal, Williams, & Teasdale, 2002), except for greater emphasis on patterns of thoughts and feelings that might be associated with suicidal planning, factors that maintain and exacerbate such patterns, and preparation of explicit action plans for suicidal crises.
In 27 years as an inpatient R.N. in psychiatry, I always felt that any fear about violent patients was considerably helped by on-the-scene staff teamwork, ongoing communication of unit support and effective planning for crisis in advance.
There is also a need to examine the ethical issues that arise from planning for a public health crisis of this magnitude.
But the BBC's Southeast Asia correspondent, Rachel Harvey, says the new administration is under pressure to get a grip on the current crisis before planning for the future.
We should plan for future financial crises, to occur at some unknown date for some unknown reason, and arm ourselves with better tools to clean up the mess.
