1944
DOI: 10.1037/h0057881
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Child psychiatry in war-time Britain.

Abstract: The author, who is acting director of the Child Guidance Clinic in Bristol, England, made a survey of inmates of a children's hospital damaged in an air raid: 61% showed signs of strain from 3 weeks to 2 months, but the majority recovered after that time. Eleven cases were specifically described. "Children showed great ability to recover well from air raid effects; but the strain of separation from parents by evacuation is generally greater, and the effects more profound."

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“…Its subjects were children in Israeli towns subjected to frequent shellings from across the border in the period following the 1967 Arab-Israeli War. Children's behavior under wartime stresses has been studied extensively during World War II (e.g., Bordman, 1944;Brander, 1943;Despert, 1942;Freud & Burlingham, 1942;Solomon, 1942). In all researches of this period, the interest centered around questions of clinical interest, in particular, ones regarding the scope and the nature of pathological symptoms occurring under war-induced stressful circumstances such as air raids, bombardments, etc.…”
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“…Its subjects were children in Israeli towns subjected to frequent shellings from across the border in the period following the 1967 Arab-Israeli War. Children's behavior under wartime stresses has been studied extensively during World War II (e.g., Bordman, 1944;Brander, 1943;Despert, 1942;Freud & Burlingham, 1942;Solomon, 1942). In all researches of this period, the interest centered around questions of clinical interest, in particular, ones regarding the scope and the nature of pathological symptoms occurring under war-induced stressful circumstances such as air raids, bombardments, etc.…”
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“…Mental illness was found in children who had been evacuated from a Bristol hospital during a night raid; 61% showed signs of strain from 3 weeks to 2 months afterwards, and 11% had symptoms at 7 months. 84 Therefore, by 1943, a picture of children who lived in heavily bombed areas with chronic anxiety symptoms had begun to emerge. 85 In the postconflict period, a study by Charlotte Carey-Trefzer 86 followed up 212 children who had presented to the Great Ormond Street Hospital's Child Guidance Clinic between 1942 and 1946, "in which the war was mentioned in connection with the child's distress".…”
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“…Some clinicians did recognize the adverse impact of air raids on children, and the common delay in the onset of symptoms that often hampered diagnoses, but the majority of studies focused their concern on the perceived harms of the mass evacuation schemes at the start of the war, where many young children were separated from their families for extended periods of time (e.g. Bodman 1944;Pritchard and Rosenzweig 1942). There was also a related strand of work looking at play therapy for children affected by the war, a field developed in interesting directions by Marie Paneth in her work with violent and disruptive young people playing on bombsites that contributed to the adventure playground movement, discussed briefly in Chapter 4 (and see Paneth 1944).…”
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confidence: 99%