Controllability Awareness in Professionals Under the Threat of Terror

Somer, Eli; Weitzman, A.; Heth, Josephine Todrank

doi:10.1300/j189v03n01_01

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“…Whereas pre‐attack traumatic experience predicted 4% of the variance in postattack bomb‐related PTSD symptoms in Nairobi youth following the Kenya bombing, lifetime traumatic experience (which broadens the scope to include postattack trauma) predicted 6% of this variance. Data document the distress encountered by teachers who come into proximal contact with terrorism (e.g., Pfefferbaum et al., 2004; Somer et al., 2004), but research has not yet examined the relationship between teacher distress and the functioning of their students.…”

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“…When terrorist attacks occur during school hours, school personnel address the physical and emotional needs of youth. Teachers who come into proximal contact with terrorism experience distress (e.g., Pfefferbaum et al., 2004; Somer et al., 2004), but no published research has examined the relationship between teacher postattack distress and the functioning of their students. Research is also needed to evaluate the efforts of teachers who help children make sense of terrorist attacks.…”

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Terrorism: The psychological impact on youth.

Comer

Kendall

2007

Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice

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Research on the psychological impact of terrorism on youth is reviewed and evaluated. Children having proximal contact with terrorism show elevated posttraumatic stress, separation anxiety, and/or other symptoms. Following a terrorist attack, youth proximal and distal to the attack are exposed to a vast amount of attackrelated media coverage and exposure to such media coverage is associated with postattack posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptomatology. However, the research is inchoate, including an insufficient scope and methodological limitations. Research has yet to examine the impact that exposure to an extended context of threat, expectation, and alert has on child development. Importantly, how are children influenced by secondhand terrorism -the context in which cultural influences disproportionately attend to the possibilities , rather than probabilities , of future terrorism? Research is needed to evaluate the impact of terrorism on psychopathology (beyond PTSD), functional impairment, and ethnic stereotyping in youth, and to examine the efficacy of psychological programs that strive to redress the problems of youth affected by terrorism.

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Terrorism: The psychological impact on youth.

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Kendall

2007

Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice

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Integration of Wearable, Persuasive, and Multimedia Design Principles in Enhancing Depression Awareness: A Conceptual Model

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Salam

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Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering

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Managing terror: Differences between Jews and Arabs in Israel

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Using telephone surveys, we examined exposure to terror, coping, and mental health response in randomly selected Jewish-Israelis (n = 100) and Arab-Israelis (n = 100) living in five Israeli cities affected by terrorism. Jewish-Israelis and Arab-Israelis were randomly selected for study participation and completed telephone surveys in May 2002, following an extended string of terror attacks and hostilities. Although terrorism is designed to target Jewish-Israelis, the rates of exposure were similar in the two groups. Arab-Israelis reported using a wider array of coping strategies, yet also endorsed more frequent PTSD and more severe depression symptoms than Jewish-Israelis. We examined a variety of demographic, ethnic, and religious predictors of different coping styles and found varying results. For example, acceptance coping was best predicted by Arab-Israeli ethnicity, being female, greater religiosity, and lower education. Predictors of mental health response to terror were also examined, with Arab-Israeli ethnicity, being female, adaptation coping and collaborative coping best predicting PTSD and depression symptoms. Arab-Israelis may not have the same access to overarching sources of patriotic support that are readily available to their Jewish compatriots, and civilian and economic inequity experienced by the Arab minority may add to a sense of diminished resources. Our findings justify outreach efforts to overlooked minorities at risk for posttraumatic distress. Women seem to be at particular risk for the development of mental health symptoms following terrorism, which should also be noted for outreach purposes.

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Controllability Awareness in Professionals Under the Threat of Terror

Cited by 4 publications

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Terrorism: The psychological impact on youth.

Terrorism: The psychological impact on youth.

Integration of Wearable, Persuasive, and Multimedia Design Principles in Enhancing Depression Awareness: A Conceptual Model

Managing terror: Differences between Jews and Arabs in Israel

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