TY - JOUR
T1 - Understanding the psychological impact of terrorism on youth
T2 - Moving beyond posttraumatic stress disorder
AU - La Greca, Annette M.
PY - 2007/9/1
Y1 - 2007/9/1
N2 - Comer and Kendall's (2007) comprehensive review of the impact of terrorism on youth organizes this important and burgeoning area of research. The present commentary focuses on youth outcomes associated with proximal contact with terrorist attacks, and highlights several important issues that merit attention. Specifically, the commentary emphasizes the importance of examining youths' postattack outcomes broadly (in addition to posttraumatic stress disorder and its symptoms), assessing traumatic grief and bereavement when mass casualties occur, and evaluating issues of comorbidity and functional impairment. Future research on the impact of terrorism on youth would benefit from adopting a developmental psychopathology perspective in understanding variables that may influence and be influenced by youths'; reactions to terrorist events. Implications for research and clinical practice are discussed.
AB - Comer and Kendall's (2007) comprehensive review of the impact of terrorism on youth organizes this important and burgeoning area of research. The present commentary focuses on youth outcomes associated with proximal contact with terrorist attacks, and highlights several important issues that merit attention. Specifically, the commentary emphasizes the importance of examining youths' postattack outcomes broadly (in addition to posttraumatic stress disorder and its symptoms), assessing traumatic grief and bereavement when mass casualties occur, and evaluating issues of comorbidity and functional impairment. Future research on the impact of terrorism on youth would benefit from adopting a developmental psychopathology perspective in understanding variables that may influence and be influenced by youths'; reactions to terrorist events. Implications for research and clinical practice are discussed.
KW - Children and adolescents
KW - Disasters
KW - Intervention
KW - Terrorism
KW - Terrorist attacks
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1468-2850.2007.00080.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1468-2850.2007.00080.x
M3 - Comment/debate
AN - SCOPUS:34547442029
VL - 14
SP - 219
EP - 223
JO - Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice
JF - Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice
SN - 0969-5893
IS - 3
ER -
