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Parenting in the throes of traumatic events: Risks and protection

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Abstract

In their study of children in London in World War II during the German Blitz, Anna Freud and Dorothy Burlingham (1943) observed that children who were separated from their families in the city and sent to safe havens were much more traumatized than children who remained with their family in the bombarded city. They concluded that the disruption of family ties is more traumatic to children than the events of war. Thus they laid the foundation for conceptualizing family bonds as a protective factor for children in times of mass trauma, long before concepts of resilience and protective factors had been developed.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationTreating Traumatized Children
Subtitle of host publicationRisk, resilience, and recovery
PublisherTaylor and Francis
Pages72-84
Number of pages13
ISBN (Electronic)9781134092161
ISBN (Print)9780415426367
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2008

Bibliographical note

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© 2009 Selection and editorial matter, Danny Brom, Ruth Pat-Horenczyk and Julian D. Ford; individual chapters, the contributors. All rights reserved.

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