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Children and disaster.

BMJPublished 9 October 1982Open access
D Black
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TL;DR

What makes some children resilient and inoculates them against disaster was the theme running through the International Child Psychiatry Congress held in Dublin earlier this year, and it appears to be the ability of their parents to adapt to the stress.

Abstract

Children and disasterChildren are resilient creatures with great individual varia- bility,' and we no longer believe that early experience moulds

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Social SciencesHealth Professions