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Children and Disasters

Part of the book series: Issues in Clinical Child Psychology (ICCP)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
  2. Introduction: Children and Disasters

    • Conway F. Saylor
    Pages 1-9
  3. Stress and Coping in Children and Families

    • Bruce E. Compas, Joanne E. Epping
    Pages 11-28
  4. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Children and Adolescents

    • Jane M. Keppel-Benson, Thomas H. Ollendick
    Pages 29-43
  5. Issues in the Assessment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Children

    • A. J. Finch Jr., Timothy K. Daugherty
    Pages 45-66
  6. Impact of Natural Disasters on Children and Families

    • Ronald W. Belter, Mitsuko P. Shannon
    Pages 85-103
  7. Technology-Related Disasters

    • William Yule
    Pages 105-121
  8. Psychological Response of Children to Shootings and Hostage Situations

    • Ronald H. Rozensky, Ira H. Sloan, Eitan D. Schwarz, Janice M. Kowalski
    Pages 123-136
  9. Children and War

    • Cynthia Cupit Swenson, Avigdor Klingman
    Pages 137-163
  10. School-Based Intervention Following a Disaster

    • Avigdor Klingman
    Pages 187-210
  11. Community-Level Intervention after a Disaster

    • Cathy Dodds Joyner, Cynthia Cupit Swenson
    Pages 211-231
  12. Back Matter

    Pages 233-237

About this book

In response to the growing concern for the psychological impact of disasters on children, this book integrates a diverse body of literature-including theory, case studies and other research, and assessment and intervention techniques-contributed by many of the fields most experienced professionals. Child and school psychologists, psychiatrists, nurses, mental health administrators, and pediatricians will all appreciate the work's unique focus on the reaction of children to extreme stress.

Editors and Affiliations

  • The Citadel, Charleston, USA

    Conway Fleming Saylor

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Children and Disasters

  • Editors: Conway Fleming Saylor

  • Series Title: Issues in Clinical Child Psychology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4766-9

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1993

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-44431-9Published: 30 June 1993

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-3234-1Published: 08 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4757-4766-9Published: 29 June 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1574-0471

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXII, 237

  • Topics: Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Psychology

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