Resilience and vulnerability among refugee children of traumatized and non-traumatized parents

Resilience and vulnerability among refugee children of traumatized and non-traumatized parents

BACKGROUND The aim of the study was to explore resilience among refugee children whose parents had been traumatized and were suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). METHODS The study comprised 80 refugee children (40 boys and 40 girls, age range 6-17 yrs), divided into two groups. The test group consisted of 40 refugee children whose parents had been tortured in Iraq before comi...

The relative importance of needs among traumatized and non-traumatized samples

Typically, people rate enhancement needs as more important than security needs to their well-being. Two studies tested whether event valence and prior trauma moderate relative need importance. Traumatized (hurricane survivors) and non-traumatized (control) participants recalled the most ‘‘distressing’’ (security-relevant) or ‘‘satisfying’’ (enhancement-relevant) event they had recently experien...

Traumatized permanent incisors in children.

Managing traumatized children: a trauma systems perspective.

PURPOSE OF REVIEW To review the current research on trauma-informed child-serving systems. Research on this topic, although sparse, is critically important because most children who come into contact with systems, including the child welfare and juvenile justice systems, have experienced at least one traumatic event. RECENT FINDINGS Very little research has actually been done on this topic ar...

Exploring Psychological Vaccination for Potentially Traumatized Children

Global population of forcibly displaced people has been reported to exceed 65 million in 2015 [1]. Although international community is highly aware of people who had passed the borders of their country and called as refugees, internally displaced people (IDP) are far more than refugees and not getting as much attention as refugees by the civilized world. As a consequence of collapsing of the Ir...