This article presents a summary of recent crisis management publications. The first research report summarized, "Predictors of PTSD," was a study of predictor variables for responses to the World Trade Center attack. The second paper, "Effective Mental Health Response to Catastrophic Events," looked at effective responses following Hurricane Katrina. The final article, "Objective vs. Perceived Life Threat in the Adjustment to Cancer," examined the hypothesis that a patient's subjective appraisal of illness severity is more strongly related to distress than the objective indices.