Citation

Rousseau C, Machouf A. Am. J. Orthopsychiatry 2005; 75(4): 466-474.

Affiliation

Transcultural Psychiatry Team, Montreal Children's Hospital, Montreal, PQ, Canada. cecile.rousseau@muhc.mcgill.ca

Copyright

(Copyright © 2005, American Orthopsychiatric Association, Publisher Wiley Blackwell)

DOI

10.1037/0002-9432.75.4.466

PMID

16262506

Abstract

This article describes a school-based preventive pilot project for recent immigrant children, designed to decrease anxiety and intergroup tensions associated with the Iraq war. Results suggest that clinicians should address the multiplicity of meanings associated with international events when planning a prevention program in multiethnic schools to help children to cope with the increasingly common gap between the ways traumatic events covered by the media are understood at home and at school.

Language: en