Proceedings of the 2023 9th International Conference on Humanities and Social Science Research (ICHSSR 2023)

The Psychological Effects of Disasters on Children and Adolescents

Authors
Yi Zhan Du1, Tsai Feng Kao1, *, Lian Yang1, Chengchieh Li2, Xintian Wang2
1School of Education Science, Shaoguan University, Shaoguan, China
2School of Education Science, Minnan Normal University, Zhangzhou, China
*Corresponding author. Email: g9730808@gmail.com
Corresponding Author
Tsai Feng Kao
Available Online 9 September 2023.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-092-3_99How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Disaster; Post-traumatic stress disorder; Psychological resilience; Mental health
Abstract

The impact of disasters is often enormous. Especially for children and adolescents extensive psycho-social problems related to various disasters, although psychological pain will disappear after disaster exposure, but after the disaster experience, significant adaptation difficulties will persist, these factors require children and adolescents to pay attention to understand the importance of the link between disasters and increasingly common psychological distress. Psychological and behavioral sequel in children and adolescents after disasters are widespread and prolonged. This paper combs relevant studies to understand the psychological impact of disasters on children and find better solutions and measures. This paper summarizes the psychological stress disorder and psychological-behavioral responses caused by disaster events to children and proposes psychological and behavioral interventions for affected children and adolescents.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2023 9th International Conference on Humanities and Social Science Research (ICHSSR 2023)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
9 September 2023
ISBN
10.2991/978-2-38476-092-3_99
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-092-3_99How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2023 The Author(s)
Open Access
Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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AU  - Yi Zhan Du
AU  - Tsai Feng Kao
AU  - Lian Yang
AU  - Chengchieh Li
AU  - Xintian Wang
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/09/09
TI  - The Psychological Effects of Disasters on Children and Adolescents
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PB  - Atlantis Press
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