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Hardy, Lawrence – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2006
The emotional trauma of recent events may never go away. A million people were uprooted by Hurricane Katrina, including an estimated 372,000 children of school age. Three weeks later, Hurricane Rita slammed into the Texas-Louisiana coastline, forcing thousands more to evacuate. Acute symptoms of trauma range from confusion, nightmares, and…
Descriptors: Natural Disasters, Children, Mental Health, Poverty
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Betts, Brenda – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2006
This article focuses on the experiences and survival of displaced children in four large migrations in U.S. history. The chaos and despair caused by Hurricane Katrina are reminders that the displacement and survival of children are timely and relevant topics for the social studies curriculum. Hurricane Katrina was the worst natural disaster in…
Descriptors: United States History, Natural Disasters, Social Studies, Children
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Bauer, Patricia J.; Burch, Melissa M.; Van Abbema, Dana L.; Ackil, Jennifer K. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2007
Mother-child dyads who experienced a devastating tornado talked about the storm and about two affectively more positive or neutral events at each of two time points: 4 months and 10 months after the storm. The conversations were analyzed to determine whether mothers and/or children's contributions differed as a function of event type and whether…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Mothers, Memory, Natural Disasters
Federal Emergency Management Agency, Washington, DC. – 1998
Noting that the most assistance adults can provide to a child during a disaster is to be calm, honest, and caring, this brochure provides suggestions for helping children cope with natural and other disasters. The brochure details how children's typical reactions vary with their age, describes how families can prepare for disasters, and suggests…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Coping, Emergency Programs
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Evans, Linda; Oehler-Stinnett, Judy – School Psychology International, 2006
Worldwide children are impacted by natural disasters, including hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, earthquakes, wildfires, landslides and sandstorms, winter and severe storms, heat waves, volcanoes and tsunamis. School psychologists should understand natural disaster effects, such as economic loss, relocation and health concerns and mental health…
Descriptors: School Psychology, Natural Disasters, Mental Health, School Psychologists
Britt, Alice Mae – Online Submission, 2006
The 2006 National Resiliency Response Initiative for Katrina's Kids is a systematic approach to providing resiliency support to the over 200,000 children victimized by one of the worst natural disasters in American history. From the Gulf States region, children suffered trauma during and after Hurricane Katrina as they became displaced young…
Descriptors: Psychological Needs, Learning Problems, Natural Disasters, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
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Garbarino, James; And Others – American Psychologist, 1991
Discusses the developmental challenges faced by children in wartime and similar circumstances. Reviews studies made in several scenes of conflict from World War II to the present. Adults' political ideologies can be sustaining and supportive but may prolong communal violence and curtail moral development. (DM)
Descriptors: Children, Coping, Ideology, Moral Development
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Measham, Thomas G. – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2007
This paper discusses the concept of "primal landscapes" as a way of conceptualising the interactions between children and the environments they grow up in. The paper discusses this concept drawing on empirical research conducted in the field of human geography on how people learn about their environments. The research employed a…
Descriptors: Natural Disasters, Environmental Education, Human Geography, Experiential Learning
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Evans, Linda Garner; Oehler-Stinnett, Judy – Psychology in the Schools, 2006
Children served by school psychologists are frequently impacted by natural disasters. In the United States, tornadoes are a particular threat but have been studied very little. The current investigation developed a scale for assessing posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in children in Kindergarten to Grade 6 impacted by a severe tornado. Six…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Psychological Patterns, Anxiety, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
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Prince, Debra Lindsey; Pepper, Kaye; Brocato, Kay – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2006
Hurricane Katrina exposed to the world the side of America that is often ignored or forgotten--the side of America where people live in poverty and struggle to meet their most basic needs. This article focuses primarily on children in Mississippi and highlights the effect that poverty has on children's well-being at an early age and future…
Descriptors: Well Being, Children, Poverty, Weather
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Taylor, Denny – Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, 2006
This article focuses on children living in areas of armed conflict, catastrophic events and on-going emergencies. Based upon her ethnographic research, the author wants to try to share some insights into the complexities of the world in which children sometimes have to fight to live. Her intent is to create a space in which a discussion can take…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, War, Conflict
National Inst. of Mental Health (DHHS), Bethesda, MD. – 2001
This fact sheet, newly revised and updated since the attacks of September 11th, aims to share what is known about the impact of violence and disasters on children and to suggest steps to minimize long-term emotional harm. Trauma is defined to include emotional as well as physical experiences and injuries. It is noted that even secondhand exposure…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Health, Children, Coping
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Winter, Roy E.; Surr, John V.; Leaf, Beverly Joy – Young Children, 2003
Describes Disaster Child Care (DCC), a nonsectarian ministry, which trains and mobilizes volunteers to care for children of families suffering from a natural or man-made disaster. Specifically addresses: (1) comfort through familiarity; (2) behaviors and approaches to lessen anxiety; and (3) care and caregiver training. Provides examples of care…
Descriptors: Child Care, Child Caregivers, Children, Emotional Problems
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Wasserstein, Shari B.; La Greca, Annette M. – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 1998
Three months after Hurricane Andrew, 89 children in grades four to six who lived in two-parent families and had experienced the hurricane were tested. Children's symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder were related to their perceptions of parental conflict; this relationship was stronger for Hispanic children than for other ethnic groups.…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Children, Hurricanes, Natural Disasters
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Shelby, Janine S.; Tredinnick, Michael G. – Journal of Counseling & Development, 1995
Crisis intervention has typically been conceptualized as seeking a return of clients to a state of equilibrium. Personal work experience with Hurricane Andrew survivors has led to an appreciation of the importance of several considerations. Develops a proactive approach, attempting to recognize and extend clients' preexisting strengths. Offers…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Children, Coping
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