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Howard J. Osofsky, Joy D. Osofsky, Mindy Kronenberg, Adrianne Brennan, Tonya Cross Hansel
American Journal of Orthopsychiatry
Published date April 15, 2009
American Journal of Orthopsychiatry
Published date April 15, 2009
Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms in Children After Hurricane Katrina: Predicting the Need for Mental Health Services
- Examines factors related to the development of posttraumatic stress symptoms in children and adolescents after Hurricane Katrina
- Hypothesizes that a positive correlation would exist between trauma exposure variables and symptoms indicating need for mental health services experienced 2 years after Hurricane Katrina
- Studies 7,258 children and adolescents from heavily affected Louisiana parishes
- Administers the Hurricane Assessment and Referral Tool for Children and Adolescents developed by the National Child Traumatic Stress Network
- Finds that results were generally supportive of hypotheses
- Results show that 49.1% of students surveyed in the 2005-2006 school year and 41.6% of students surveyed in the 2006-2007 school year met the cut-off score for mental health referral
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