Psychological reactions to Israeli occupation: Findings from the national study of school-based screening in Palestine

Abdeen, Ziad; Qasrawi, Radwan; Nabil, Shibli; Shaheen, Mohammad

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“…Specifically, close to 60% of youth exposed to violence in the West Bank and Gaza have difficulty functioning in school as a result of the psychological trauma of conflicts (Abdeen et al 2008). Additionally, a significant proportion of Palestinian youth suffer from PTSD, which is thought to detract from their ability to concentrate and perform well in school as a result (Zakrison et al 2004).…”

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Mobile innovations, executive functions, and educational developments in conflict zones: a case study from Palestine

Buckner

Kim

2011

Education Tech Research Dev

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Prior research suggests that exposure to conflict can negatively impact the development of executive functioning, which in turn can affect academic performance. Recognizing the need to better understand the potentially widespread executive function deficiencies among Palestinian students and to help develop educational resources targeted to youth in conflict-affected areas, we utilize mobile devices to assess correlates of executive functions among Palestinian youth from varied socioeconomic backgrounds. We developed and examined two types of executive functioning tasks with a sample of 185 Palestinian youth, aged 6-16. Our findings confirm that students in schools that are more exposed to the effects of the political conflict have lower levels of executive functioning. We also found that the advantages of being in an urban environment are strong predictors of performance on executive function exercises, but that a high exposure-risk to political violence negatively detracts from planning-related executive functioning. Lastly, we found that living in urban environment is positively correlated with better mental planning performance (i.e., planning before taking actions) whereas being in a private school is a stronger predictor of mental flexibility (i.e., dynamically adapting to changing rules of the game). We also suggest a few strategies for future research.

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Mobile innovations, executive functions, and educational developments in conflict zones: a case study from Palestine

Buckner

Kim

2011

Education Tech Research Dev

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“…22 items are scored on a Likert-scale from 0 (never) to 4 (always). For this study, we used the adults' and the adolescents' version, both the translated Arabic versions, which are adapted to the Palestinian context, and with has been found to have a sufficient reliability and validity [40,41].…”

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Associations between mental health symptoms in Palestinian captives' wives and in their children

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“…A PTSD symptom severity scale was computed as the sum of the responses to the 20 (of 22) items and categorical prevalence score. The UCLA PTSD Index has been widely used among children and adolescents in the Middle East and elsewhere [27][28][29][30]. The original English version of the PTSD scale had Cronbach's β of .90, and good to excellent test-retest reliability [31].…”

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Prevalence and Mental Health Function of Resilience in Condition of Military Siege and Violence in a Palestinian Community Sample

Abu¹

2015

J Psychiatry

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Aims: The study had two aims: First, we assess the prevalence of resilience based on the person-based classification depicting a balance between the severity of trauma and occurrence of PTSD. Second, we examine the role of resilience characteristics of commitment, control and challenge in protecting children's mental health from negative trauma impacts. Methods:The participants were 386 Palestinian children and adolescents from Gaza (age 13.41+2.96, 52.07% boys and 47.93% girls). The results revealed a 25% prevalence of resilient children, and resilience was more common in well-educated families and children from geographical areas exposed to heavily Israeli shelling and destruction. Children were interviewed by sociodemographic scale, Gaza Traumatic Events Checklist, Child Depression and Anxiety Scale, UCLA PTSD Index for DSM-IV-Adolescent Version, and Resilience Attitude Scale.Results: There were generally no gender differences in the exposure to traumatic events, as all. Neither were there gender differences in the mean number of traumatic events related to Israeli military violence or Palestinian factional fighting. According to the DSM-IV criterion, 12.4% of the children and adolescents reported probable PTSD, and 22.37% filled the two criteria partial PTSD, and 26.7% the one criteria partial PTSD (re-experiencing or avoidance or hyper arousal). More than a third (38.4% of the children did not have PTSD. There were no significant differences between boys and girls in PTSD. For depression and anxiety, boys and girls did not differ in the levels of PTSD, depressive and anxiety symptoms. Also only one marginal gender difference was found concerning resilience characteristics: girls reported more feelings of control than boys. The results revealed that 25.0% of the participants was classified as resilient indicating presence of high exposure to traumatic events and absence of PTSD and 22.2% as traumatized, i.e., presence of both high exposure to trauma and occurrence of PTSD. Of the children 12.7% were classified as vulnerable, and 40.1% were spared of both high trauma and PTSD. As hypothesized, resilience characteristics protected children's mental health from trauma, e.g., military trauma was less associated with PTSD and anxiety among children showing high commitment. Discussion focuses on specific functions of resilience in the context of different kind of traumatic events of war, political and military violence.

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Psychological reactions to Israeli occupation: Findings from the national study of school-based screening in Palestine

Cited by 81 publications

References 55 publications

Mobile innovations, executive functions, and educational developments in conflict zones: a case study from Palestine

Mobile innovations, executive functions, and educational developments in conflict zones: a case study from Palestine

Associations between mental health symptoms in Palestinian captives' wives and in their children

Prevalence and Mental Health Function of Resilience in Condition of Military Siege and Violence in a Palestinian Community Sample

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