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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.
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]
Children's mental health, their rights, and climate change need to be seen as interlinked topics, not separate points. [17] Children and young adults are the most vulnerable to climate change impacts. [46] Many of the climate change impacts which affect children's physical health also lead to psychological and mental health consequences. [46]
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 ...
The number of children in armed conflict zones are around 250 million. [1] They confront physical and mental harms from war experiences. "Armed conflict" is defined in two ways according to International Humanitarian Law: "1) international armed conflicts, opposing two or more States, 2) non-international armed conflicts, between governmental forces and nongovernmental armed groups, or between ...
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.
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In contrast to conventional psychiatric care, disaster psychiatry prioritizes mental health over disease states. The initial primary focus after a disaster is on individuals undergoing a transient and normal psychological response to a traumatic event. In this paradigm of care, less emphasis may be placed on assigning diagnostic labels prematurely.