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School Shooting Trauma Hits Kids Differently

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(left to right): Sidonie Matsner Gruenberg (1881-1974) and Bird Stein Gans (1868-1944) by Smithsonian Institution
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A parent and child leave the scene of the Sandy Hook Elementary School following a shooting inside the school in Newtown, Connecticut, on December 14, 2012. (Jeff Spooner/EPA) When even adults are left speechless by traumatic events, it's hard to imagine what's going on in the mind of a child. Adults often gorge on media images -- trying to glean facts, gain perspective, to make sense out of a senseless event. But for children, it can have the opposite effect. After the deadly rampage at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. , psychologists and pediatricians are strongly urging parents to shield their school-age children from too much exposure to the news.

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Jamie Howard

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-0.172041"For really young children, they can be confused and think that this is happening over and over and over again," said Jamie Howard, ...
-0.123796"They don't necessarily know that it's on a loop, And that would be really scary. "For older kids who are around 8, 9, 10, they might sort of be inundated with anxiety and people's fear and people's stress," Howard said, ...
-0.115282"They don't necessarily know that it's on a loop, And that would be really scary. "For older kids who are around 8, 9, 10, they might sort of be inundated with anxiety and people's fear and people's stress," Howard said, "and it could overwhelm their capacity to cope."
0.0648774"We look to grown-ups to interpret situations for us," Howard said. ...
0.051051"We look to grown-ups to interpret situations for us," Howard said. "It's called social referencing. It's what kids do. So we are all sort of being watched. And kids are looking to us to let them know: How should we be reacting to this?"
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Jeff Spooner/EPA

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Dr. Richard Besser

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Adam Lanza

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Dr. Alan Kazdin

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-0.208957"A number of children were traumatized who didn't have direct contact with 9/11, but rather watched the media extensively," said Dr. Alan Kazdin, ...
-0.141751"A number of children were traumatized who didn't have direct contact with 9/11, but rather watched the media extensively," said Dr. Alan Kazdin, a professor of child psychology at Yale University. "For those children, a term was coined called 'secondary terrorism.' That is to say, some children had symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder from extensive exposure."
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  • Mean: -0.175354
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