Earthquakes,emergency response,and the psychological needs of school-aged children.

详细信息   

• 作者：Woolsey ; Colleen.
• 学历：Doctor
• 年：2009
• 关键词：Emergency response plans ; school-aged children ; de
• 导师：Farrell, Marie P.,eadvisor
• 毕业院校：Fielding Graduate University
• ISBN：9781109144925
• CBH：3357417
• Country：USA
• 语种：English
• FileSize：4799764
• Pages：320

文摘

Children have specific needs which experts often overlook in emergency response plans ERP). The purpose of this study was to understand experts judgment regarding children in current ERPs and if the inclusion of developmentally protective elements in emergency response plans mitigates psychological trauma in the 6- to 10-year-old-child. Haddons matrix supports the exploration of interactions between children in a disaster environment e.g., earthquake), ERPs, physical and psychological trauma injury), and developmentally protective elements of ERPs. Content analysis of telephone interviews provided understanding of these phenomena through 16 national and international experts in the areas of physiological and psychological trauma, public health, and emergency planning. Overall experts noted that childrens psychological needs are not included in current ERP. Key findings emphasize the inclusion of reassuring pre-preparation and drilling of children in the mitigation of process trauma, training at every level of the population and the response system regarding the physiological and psychological needs of children, creating useable and meaningful operationalized) planning tools, generating research on childrens response to natural disaster, and incorporating these findings into planning. A major finding was that over all, childrens needs are not addressed in the nations emergency plans. Experts recommend a flexible framework to assist in the integration of the complexity of disaster planning and childrens needs.