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Children affected by disasters need nursing interventions geared toward their particular developmental level and sensitive to their perception of the disaster.

The proposed typology, while accepting the nuclear manifestations of posttraumatic stress disorder, highlights prominent coexisting symptoms that define the clinical appearance of different patients. The typological approach in posttraumatic stress disorder does not carry the ambiguities of comorbidity, and facilitates a more specific and appropriate management of the cases.