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Starkey, Leighann; Aber, J. Lawrence; Crossman, Angela – Developmental Science, 2019
Exposure to community violence is thought to create risk for the social and emotional development of children, including those children living in low-income, conflict-affected countries. In the absence of other types of community resources, schools may be one of the few community resources that can help buffer children from the negative effects of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Environment, Violence, Children
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Macksoud, Mona S.; Aber, J. Lawrence – Child Development, 1996
Interviewed 224 Lebanese children and adolescents using measures of war exposure, mental health symptoms, adaptational outcomes, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Found that the number of war traumas experienced by the subject was positively related to PTSD symptoms and that various types of war traumas were differentially related to PTSD,…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Age Differences, Children