Citation

Miller TW, Kraus RF, Tatevosyan AS, Kamenchenko P. Child Psychiatry Hum. Dev. 1993; 24(2): 115-123.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry, University of Kentucky Medical Center, Lexington 40536-0080.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1993, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8287693

Abstract

The impact of the Armenian earthquake of 1988 on children and adolescents screened through the National Mental Health Research Center in Spitak, Armenia, is discussed. The earthquake caused close to 20,000 deaths, almost two-thirds of which were children and adolescents. Clinical data which address advances in understanding the diagnostic indicators and resulting psychopathology in victims of the Armenian earthquake are presented. Current theory about the processing of trauma in children and adolescents is reviewed, with recommendations for future research in this area.

Language: en