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Children and war: the work of the Children and War Foundation
The Children and War Foundation was established after the authors’ experiences following the civil war in former Yugoslavia in the mid-1990s. Many organizations tried to mitigate the effects of the war on children but few interventions were based on evidence and fewer were properly evaluated. The Fo...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3547281/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23330058 http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/ejpt.v4i0.18424 |
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author | Yule, William Dyregrov, Atle Raundalen, Magne Smith, Patrick |
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description | The Children and War Foundation was established after the authors’ experiences following the civil war in former Yugoslavia in the mid-1990s. Many organizations tried to mitigate the effects of the war on children but few interventions were based on evidence and fewer were properly evaluated. The Foundation was established in Norway with the aim of promoting better evidence-based interventions to help children after wars and natural disasters. The Foundation has developed a number of empirically grounded manuals that aim to help children learn strategies that will lessen the stress reactions that they have developed. The manuals are designed to be delivered by personnel who are not necessarily very experienced in child mental health. They are aimed at groups of children using a public health approach to reach large numbers in a short space of time. The strategies are not intended as individual therapy. The Teaching Recovery Techniques manual has been used following a number of earthquakes and other natural disasters and data from a number of these will be discussed. A Writing for Recovery manual is aimed at helping adolescents and is based on the seminal work of James Pennebaker. It is currently being evaluated in three separate studies. A group-based manual to help children bereaved by war or disaster has recently been developed. |
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spelling | pubmed-35472812013-01-17 Children and war: the work of the Children and War Foundation Yule, William Dyregrov, Atle Raundalen, Magne Smith, Patrick Eur J Psychotraumatol Chronology The Children and War Foundation was established after the authors’ experiences following the civil war in former Yugoslavia in the mid-1990s. Many organizations tried to mitigate the effects of the war on children but few interventions were based on evidence and fewer were properly evaluated. The Foundation was established in Norway with the aim of promoting better evidence-based interventions to help children after wars and natural disasters. The Foundation has developed a number of empirically grounded manuals that aim to help children learn strategies that will lessen the stress reactions that they have developed. The manuals are designed to be delivered by personnel who are not necessarily very experienced in child mental health. They are aimed at groups of children using a public health approach to reach large numbers in a short space of time. The strategies are not intended as individual therapy. The Teaching Recovery Techniques manual has been used following a number of earthquakes and other natural disasters and data from a number of these will be discussed. A Writing for Recovery manual is aimed at helping adolescents and is based on the seminal work of James Pennebaker. It is currently being evaluated in three separate studies. A group-based manual to help children bereaved by war or disaster has recently been developed. Co-Action Publishing 2013-01-15 /pmc/articles/PMC3547281/ /pubmed/23330058 http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/ejpt.v4i0.18424 Text en © 2013 WilliamYule et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Chronology Yule, William Dyregrov, Atle Raundalen, Magne Smith, Patrick Children and war: the work of the Children and War Foundation |
title | Children and war: the work of the Children and War Foundation |
title_full | Children and war: the work of the Children and War Foundation |
title_fullStr | Children and war: the work of the Children and War Foundation |
title_full_unstemmed | Children and war: the work of the Children and War Foundation |
title_short | Children and war: the work of the Children and War Foundation |
title_sort | children and war: the work of the children and war foundation |
topic | Chronology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3547281/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23330058 http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/ejpt.v4i0.18424 |
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