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Where violent conflicts are the norm, the lives of young children are significantly disrupted and their families have great difficulty in offering the sensitive and consistent care that young children need for their healthy development. [1] One impact is the high rates of PTSD seen in children living with natural disasters or chronic conflict.
Emergency situations affecting education are defined as all situations in which man-made or natural disasters destroy, within a short period of time, the usual conditions of life, care and education facilities for children disrupting, denying, hindering progress or delaying the realization of the right to education. Such situations can be ...
Specifically, flood and storm related PTSD are observed frequently for people residing in low and middle income areas impacted by climate disasters. [12] Other vulnerable groups to extreme weather mental health effects include the economically disadvantaged, elderly, disabled, prisoners, substance abusers, and children. [13]
Instead, emergency management focuses on the management of disasters, which are events that produce more impacts than a community can handle on its own. [2] The management of disasters tends to require some combination of activity from individuals and households, organizations, local, and/or higher levels of government.
The effects of this trauma can be experienced very differently depending on factors such as how long the trauma was, how severe and even the age of the child when it occurred. Negative childhood experiences can have a tremendous impact on future violence victimization and perpetration, and lifelong health and opportunity. [3]
Psychological resilience, or mental resilience, is the ability to cope mentally and emotionally with a crisis, or to return to pre-crisis status quickly. [1]The term was popularized in the 1970s and 1980s by psychologist Emmy Werner as she conducted a forty-year-long study of a cohort of Hawaiian children who came from low socioeconomic status backgrounds.
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Theorizing Disasters: Nature, Power and Culture (Catastrophe and Culture: The Anthropology of Disaster). A. Oliver-Smith. Santa Fe, School of American Research Press. Peek, Lori (2008). "Children and Disasters: Understanding Vulnerability, Developing Capacities, and Promoting Resilience — An Introduction". Children, Youth and Environments.