The Psychological Effects of War and Violence

The outgrowth of a conference planned as a response to the need for researchers and clinicians to develop integrated plans for addressing the psychological trauma of children exposed to violence, this volume's goals are: * to summarize research on the subject with particular emphasis on the Gulf War; * to use this information to formulate an outline of what current knowledge suggests are reasonable approaches to public mental health intervention; and * to develop an agenda for future research necessary for improving clinical efforts in varying international conflicts. A significant collection of diverse perspectives attending to a diversity of cultural and political contexts, the contributors offer many conclusions about important dimensions for analyzing the effects of violence on children. Suggesting informed approaches to public mental health efforts which can be implemented, the work presented here directs attention to the need for interdisciplinary collaboration among researchers and clinicians to better understand the effects of exposure to violence on the psychological well being of children and the optimal modes of remediation on individual, family, and community levels.

Introduction	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xviii
References	p. xix
Overview	p. 1
War Is Not Good for Children	p. 3
Children's Response to War: What Do We Know?	p. 23
The Developmental Sequela of Child Maltreatment: Implications for War-Related Trauma	p. 41
The Middle East Conflict: Its Effects on Children	p. 73
The Effect of War on Israeli Children	p. 75
Israeli Children Paint War	p. 93
Settler Children an Gulf War	p. 109
The Effect of Prewar Conditions on the Psychological Reactions of Palestinian Children to the Gulf War	p. 131
Children in War: Stress and Coping Reactions under the Threat of Scud Missile Attacks and the Effect of Proximity	p. 143
On the Value of a Psychoanalytic Perspective in Research on Children in War: Group Interviews of Israeli and Palestinian Children during the Gulf War and 1 Year Later	p. 163
The Children of Kuwait after the Gulf Crisis	p. 181
International Perspectives on Children and Violence	p. 197
The Young Lions: South African Children and Youth in Political Struggle	p. 199
Children and Political Violence in Northern Ireland: from Riots to Reconciliation	p. 215
Violence at a Distance: Thinking about the Nuclear Threat	p. 231
Children as Victims of and Witnesses to Violence in a Washington, D.C. Neighborhood	p. 243
Perspectives on Intervention	p. 279
Children and Inner-City Violence: Strategies for Intervention	p. 281
Israeli Children in the Gulf War: Problems of Masks and Peer Separation	p. 303
The Use of Hotline and Media Interventions in Israel during the Gulf War	p. 319
War-Related Stress and Family-Centered Intervention: American Children and the Gulf War	p. 339
Author Index	p. 357
Subject Index	p. 367
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