Background A comprehensive review of the design principles and methodological
approaches that have been used to make inferences from the research on disasters in …

Child-focused disaster research is a relatively new area of study, one that has grown
substantially in recent years and will continue to develop in the recent aftermath of the …

A number of logistical issues complicate the conduct of child disaster research. Like studies
of adults, much of the child research has used a single cross‐sectional assessment of non …

Children represent an understudied yet vulnerable population in the aftermath of disasters
and terrorism. For example, the effects of natural disasters have often been documented in …

Addressing the impact of natural disasters on children and their families poses a need to
identify the manner in which natural disasters differ from other disasters (unnatural or human …

Significant progress has been made in the social science disaster research field since its
inception several decades ago. Despite the advances in knowledge, important areas of …

The authors define disasters, provide statistics about their scope and magnitude, and
describe children's and adolescents' typical reactions. In addition, the authors present a …

Although researchers have studied children's reactions to disaster since the 1940s, this
subfield has expanded tremendously over the past decade. In fact, nearly half of all studies …

Disasters touch the lives of millions of children every year in many forms. These include
natural disasters such as earthquakes, hurricanes, torna-does, fires, or floods; human-made …

The amnesia of childhood and even adolescence is such a veil that adults must resort to
clinical experience and research to reconstruct the impact of trauma in early life. But both …