Young Children in the Aftermath of the World Trade Center Attacks
Young Children in the Aftermath of the World Trade Center Attacks
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DOI：
10.1037/a0020567
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发表时间：
2011-03-01
影响因子：
6.3
通讯作者：
Miranda-Julian, Claudia
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作者：
DeVoe, Ellen R.;Klein, Tovah P.;Miranda-Julian, Claudia
2001年9月11日发生在世界贸易中心的恐怖袭击是美国本土上前所未有的恐怖主义行为。这场灾难提供了一个机会，让我们了解幼儿对如此严重的创伤事件的反应。这项回顾性研究发生在袭击发生后的一年内，并在纽约市的180名儿童的高度暴露样本中研究了暴露于世贸中心灾难和家庭水平预测因子与创伤症状的关系。数据是通过与袭击发生时五岁或五岁以下儿童的父母进行访谈收集的。主要变量包括直接暴露和后9/11儿童和父母的功能。包括创伤症状儿童创伤症状与直接暴露于灾难、既往创伤有关。育儿方面的负面变化。增加了夫妻关系的紧张研究结果支持的概念，儿童的创伤性事件的反应，必须解决的家庭关系的背景下。对幼儿的临床和预防性干预应针对社会生态的多个层面。
The attacks of September 11, 2001, on the World Trade Center were unprecedented acts of terrorism on U.S. soil. The disaster provides an opportunity to understand the responses of young children to a traumatic event of this proportion. This retrospective study took place within a year of the attacks and examined the relationship of levels of exposure to the World Trade Center disaster and family level predictors to trauma symptoms in a highly exposed sample of 180 young children in New York City. Data were collected through interviews with parents of children five years or younger at the time of the attacks. Primary variables included direct exposure and post9/11 child and parent functioning. including trauma symptoms. Child trauma symptoms were related to direct exposure to the disaster, previous trauma. negative changes in parenting. and increased couple tension. Findings support the conceptualization that children's responses to traumatic events must be addressed within the caregiving context of family relationships. Clinical and preventive intervention for young children should be aimed at multiple levels of the social ecology.