Citation

Dyb G, Olff M. Eur. J. Psychotraumatol. 2014; 5: e25121.

Affiliation

Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies, NKVTS, Norway and Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, The Author(s), Publisher Co-action Publishing)

DOI

10.3402/ejpt.v5.25121

PMID

25018863

Abstract

Millions of children each year are exposed to acute events that affect one individual or family at a time (e.g., car accidents, residential fire, street violence, sudden medical events) (Langeland & Olff, 2008). Less frequent, but with major impact, are terror attacks. Across the world, terrorist groups, single actor terrorists, and perpetrators of school shootings have attacked groups of children and youth in spaces thought to provide safety. Research performed after such attacks suggests that the prevalence of posttraumatic stress reactions among persons with high levels of exposure is substantial (Schwarz & Kowalski, 1991; Scrimin et al., 2006).

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