The Psychological Effects of Disasters on Children and Adolescents
- DOI
- 10.2991/978-2-38476-092-3_99How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Disaster; Post-traumatic stress disorder; Psychological resilience; Mental health
- Abstract
The impact of disasters is often enormous. Especially for children and adolescents extensive psycho-social problems related to various disasters, although psychological pain will disappear after disaster exposure, but after the disaster experience, significant adaptation difficulties will persist, these factors require children and adolescents to pay attention to understand the importance of the link between disasters and increasingly common psychological distress. Psychological and behavioral sequel in children and adolescents after disasters are widespread and prolonged. This paper combs relevant studies to understand the psychological impact of disasters on children and find better solutions and measures. This paper summarizes the psychological stress disorder and psychological-behavioral responses caused by disaster events to children and proposes psychological and behavioral interventions for affected children and adolescents.
- Copyright
- © 2023 The Author(s)
- Open Access
- Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Yi Zhan Du AU - Tsai Feng Kao AU - Lian Yang AU - Chengchieh Li AU - Xintian Wang PY - 2023 DA - 2023/09/09 TI - The Psychological Effects of Disasters on Children and Adolescents BT - Proceedings of the 2023 9th International Conference on Humanities and Social Science Research (ICHSSR 2023) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 813 EP - 820 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-092-3_99 DO - 10.2991/978-2-38476-092-3_99 ID - Du2023 ER -