The Treatment of Children Impacted by the World Trade Center Attack

This article presents, from a developmental perspective, the authors' experiences treating children and families who were traumatized by and who lost relatives in the World Trade Center attack. The treatments took place within the Trauma Treatment Development Center, National Child Traumatic St...

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Published in:Journal of aggression, maltreatment & trauma maltreatment & trauma, 2005, Vol.10 (1-2), p.455-466
Main Authors: Kaplan, Sandra J., Pelcovitz, David, Fornari, Victor
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
9/11 impact
Child
Children
Intervention
Mental Health
mental health interventions
Stress
Terrorism
Trauma
Treatment Methods
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Summary:This article presents, from a developmental perspective, the authors' experiences treating children and families who were traumatized by and who lost relatives in the World Trade Center attack. The treatments took place within the Trauma Treatment Development Center, National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, North Shore University Hospital, Manhasset, New York, of the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System. Case vignettes address treatments for toddlers, preschool, and school-age children and adolescents. Family, individual cognitive-behavioral, school, social, and parenting treatment strategies utilized are discussed.
ISSN:1092-6771
1545-083X
DOI:10.1300/J146v10n01_04