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Zeng, Emily Jie; Silverstein, Louise Bordeaux – School Psychology International, 2011
This article presents a community-focused participatory action project designed to promote children's resilience in the early aftermath of the cataclysmic May 2008 Earthquake in Beichuan, China. Thirty children aged 7- to 15-years-old participated in the project. The project encompassed four phases that evolved from adult-directed/initiated…
Descriptors: Health Services, School Psychologists, Mental Health Programs, Foreign Countries
Gangi, Jane M.; Barowsky, Ellis – Childhood Education, 2009
More and more children are forced to deal with crushing hardships. The responsibilities of adults worldwide to attend to the affected children have never been greater. In this article, the authors first give an overview of the psychological risks for children who experience war, terrorism, and disaster. They then listen to the voices of children…
Descriptors: Children, Terrorism, Risk, Mental Health
Lowe, Sarah R.; Chan, Christian S.; Rhodes, Jean E. – Journal of Family Issues, 2011
In the present study, the authors examined the role of child-related stressors in the psychological adjustment of lower-income, primarily unmarried and African American, mothers (N = 386). All participants lived in areas affected by Hurricane Katrina, and about a third were also exposed to Hurricane Rita (30.3%, n = 117). Lacking knowledge of a…
Descriptors: Caring, Natural Disasters, Mothers, Low Income
Fernando, Gaithri A.; Miller, Kenneth E.; Berger, Dale E. – Child Development, 2010
Daily stressors may mediate the relation between exposure to disaster-related stressors and psychological and psychosocial distress among youth in disaster-affected countries. A sample of 427 Sri Lankan Sinhalese, Tamil, and Muslim youth (mean age = 14.5) completed a survey with measures of exposure to disaster-related stressors and daily…
Descriptors: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, War, Foreign Countries, Depression (Psychology)
Oncu, Elif Celebi; Wise, Aysegul Metindogan – Child Development, 2010
The purpose of this exploratory study was to determine whether projective techniques could identify long-term consequences among children stemming from exposure to a traumatic event. The first group of children (n = 53; 26 female, 27 male) experienced 2 major earthquakes at age 7, 3 months apart, in Turkey, while a similarly matched control group…
Descriptors: Seismology, Foreign Countries, Natural Disasters, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Brody, David L.; Cohen, Hindy – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2012
Early childhood educators are increasingly being called upon to deal with emotionally charged topics, which include natural and manmade disasters, war, terror, death, and other traumatic events. At our teachers college, we prepare students to deal with a challenging issue, memory of the Holocaust, through a series of activities and workshops…
Descriptors: Jews, Student Attitudes, Self Efficacy, Course Content
Kronenberg, Mindy E.; Hansel, Tonya Cross; Brennan, Adrianne M.; Osofsky, Howard J.; Osofsky, Joy D.; Lawrason, Beverly – Child Development, 2010
Trauma symptoms, recovery patterns, and life stressors of children between the ages of 9 and 18 (n = 387) following Hurricane Katrina were assessed using an adapted version of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network Hurricane Assessment and Referral Tool for Children and Adolescents (National Child Traumatic Stress Network, 2005). Based on…
Descriptors: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Coping, Depression (Psychology), Child Development
Coping Behavior in Hurricane-Affected African American Youth: Psychometric Properties of the Kidcope
Vigna, Julia F.; Hernandez, Brittany C.; Kelley, Mary L.; Gresham, Frank M. – Journal of Black Psychology, 2010
Hurricane Katrina forced thousands of children in and around New Orleans to cope with life-altering circumstances. The Kidcope, a checklist designed to assess coping in pediatric populations, has been used to evaluate children after disasters. Research has demonstrated the importance of considering the role of cultural factors in the development…
Descriptors: African Americans, Low Income Groups, Children, Factor Structure
Nastasi, Bonnie K.; Jayasena, Asoka; Summerville, Meredith; Borja, Amanda P. – School Psychology International, 2011
This article reports the findings of a school-based intervention project conducted in the Southern Province of Sri Lanka 15 to 18 months after the December 2004 Tsunami. The work responds to the need for culturally relevant programming to address long-term psychosocial recovery of children and adolescents affected by large scale disasters. Program…
Descriptors: Crisis Intervention, Natural Disasters, Action Research, Mental Health
Feen-Calligan, Holly; McIntyre, Barbara; Sands-Goldstein, Margaret – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2009
This article reviews the history of dollmaking that is relevant to art therapy, and the application of dolls as therapeutic media in clinical and educational settings. The authors describe their experiences using dollmaking in the resolution of grief, in professional identity construction, and in community service. The article addresses the…
Descriptors: Art Therapy, Toys, Art Activities, Grief
Anderson, Allison – Brookings Institution, 2010
Climate change threatens to undo and even reverse the progress made toward meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and poses one of the most serious challenges to reducing global poverty for the international community. However, the education sector offers a currently untapped opportunity to combat climate change. There is a clear…
Descriptors: Climate, Education, Sustainable Development, Risk
Piotrowski, Chris – Online Submission, 2013
There, undoubtedly, will be a flurry of research activity in the "Superstorm" Sandy impact area on a myriad of disaster-related topics, across academic disciplines. The purpose of this study was to review the disaster research related specifically to hurricanes in the educational and social sciences that would best serve as a compendium…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Educational Research, Citations (References), Natural Disasters
McLaughlin, Katie A.; Fairbank, John A.; Gruber, Michael J.; Jones, Russell T.; Osofsky, Joy D.; Pfefferbaum, Betty; Sampson, Nancy A.; Kessler, Ronald C. – Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2010
Objective: To examine patterns and predictors of trends in "DSM-IV" serious emotional disturbance (SED) among youths exposed to Hurricane Katrina. Method: A probability sample of adult pre-hurricane residents of the areas affected by Katrina completed baseline and follow-up telephone surveys 18 to 27 months post-hurricane and 12 to 18…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Incidence, Emotional Disturbances, Persistence
Burnham, Joy J. – Journal of Counseling & Development, 2009
This study was prompted by the continual exposure of youth to disasters (e.g., 9/11, Iraq War, Hurricane Katrina, school violence) and the call for revisions in fear assessments to reflect contemporary fears. Fears of 1,033 students in Grades 2-12 were examined using the American Fear Survey Schedule for Children (J. J. Burnham, 2005). Results…
Descriptors: Violence, Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students
Kinney, Dennis K.; Miller, Andrea M.; Crowley, David J.; Huang, Emerald; Gerber, Erika – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2008
Hurricanes and tropical storms served as natural experiments for investigating whether autism is associated with exposure to stressful events during sensitive periods of gestation. Weather service data identified severe storms in Louisiana from 1980 to 1995 and parishes hit by storm centers during this period. Autism prevalences in different…
Descriptors: Incidence, Autism, Pregnancy, Children