Communication With Children and Families About Disaster: Reviewing Multi-disciplinary Literature 2015–2017

Wisner, Ben; Paton, Douglas; Alisic, Eva; Eastwood, Oliver; Shreve, Cheney; Fordham, Maureen

doi:10.1007/s11920-018-0942-7

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“…This can be achieved if proper scientific and administrative framework is established to educate, train, and equip the younger generations with the skills they need to understand hazards and the associated risk, and how to fight a disaster. Children are often curious to know and learn new things and a good grooming can greatly improve their skills, which can dramatically change our perception about how young minds can actively contribute toward the reduction of disaster related casualties (Tom et al, 2008). Adults who have traditionally taken a leading role in various disaster risk reduction activities need to realize that it is time to fully prepare the younger generations to work with adults.…”

Section: Training Adults and Childrenmentioning

confidence: 99%

Earthquake Education Through the Use of Documentary Movies

2019

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Unscientific, false, inaccurate and/or exaggerated reporting about anything in media or other platforms is a serious concern that needs a solution. This is particularly important when reporting about disasters (e.g., earthquakes). The lack of authentic scientific input into about science news reporting may can lead to news disasters, which may can prove to be much more critical and dangerous than say-earthquake disasters. Therefore, this paper explores such a this problem in a portion of NW Borneo and offers solution to improve the existing norms on the earthquake science, education and awareness programs in SE Asia. The explored field location is Sabah, Malaysia, which is targeted to map the level of earthquake science education and awareness of local people, and to examine the co-seismic deformation associated with the 5th June, 2015 earthquake. This event has surprised the local communities because the region is geographically located away from the active tectonic plate boundaries, and has traditionally been considered a low earthquake risk region. This is in contrast to the existence of high earthquake hazard and risk regions in the neighboring Indonesia and the Philippines. Therefore, not surprisingly, the residents of Borneo where puzzled, surprised, and worried when a medium magnitude earthquake occurred and caused significant loss of life and property. The lack of scientific education on the causes, and remedies of earthquake hazards in most of the South and Southeast Asian regions is a reality, which needs a proper solution. Therefore, through this work a small initiative has been started in Sabah, Malaysia where stories from the earthquake victims were recorded after the devastation caused by the June 2015 earthquake. Their real time experiences were blended with the updated scientific data on the occurrence of earthquakes in Borneo, which are mostly gathered from previously published works and the work presented here. The entire work is converted into a small documentary movie that highlights the causes of earthquakes and how it impacts human life.

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Section: Training Adults and Childrenmentioning

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Earthquake Education Through the Use of Documentary Movies

2019

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“…Periods of uncertainty with an indeterminant endpoint [26,27], such as quarantines enacted during epidemics, constitute a stressful experience with particular salience for children [28]. When facing adversities like natural disasters, routines for daily activity contribute to stability and predictability which underpin children's mental health outcomes [29].…”

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Initial Challenges of Caregiving During COVID-19: Caregiver Burden, Mental Health, and the Parent–Child Relationship

Russell

Hutchison

Tambling

et al. 2020

Child Psychiatry Hum Dev

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Research confirms that the mental health burdens following community-wide disasters are extensive, with pervasive impacts noted in individuals and families. It is clear that child disaster outcomes are worst among children of highly distressed caregivers, or those caregivers who experience their own negative mental health outcomes from the disaster. The current study used path analysis to examine concurrent patterns of parents' (n = 420) experience from a national sample during the early months of the U.S. COVID-19 pandemic. The results of a multi-group path analysis, organized by parent gender, indicate good fit to the data [X 2 (10) = 159.04, p < .01]. Results indicate significant linkages between parents' caregiver burden, mental health, and perceptions of children's stress; these in turn are significantly linked to child-parent closeness and conflict, indicating possible spillover effects for depressed parents and compensatory effects for anxious parents. The impact of millions of families sheltering in place during the COVID-19 pandemic for an undefined period of time may lead to unprecedented impacts on individuals' mental health with unknown impacts on child-parent relationships. These impacts may be heightened for families whose caregivers experience increased mental health symptoms, as was the case for fathers in the current sample.

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“…Different supports and resources are needed for children of different ages. Children need support from a consistent caregiver on whom they can depend; however, it has also been become evident that children and families will be much better supported by coordinating responses across multiple levels that support their ability to adapt with unusual circumstances (Masten, 2019; Masten & Osofsky, 2010; Wisner et al, 2018). The ability to recover depends on advance preparation that includes not only having adequate resources, but also ways to communicate across systems that are able to respond and provide support (United Nations, 2015; Tiernan et al, 2018).…”

Section: Lessons Learned and Future Directions For Disaster Workmentioning

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Hurricane Katrina and the Gulf Oil Spill: Lessons learned about short‐term and long‐term effects

Osofsky

2020

Int J Psychol

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The impact and lessons learned from Hurricane Katrina and the Gulf Oil Spill are described as an example of work done reflecting best practices and theory to gain a better understanding of risk and resilience for children and families. Hurricane Katrina, described as the worst natural disaster in the US history, resulted in traumatic separations of children and families and devastation of communities and schools. The impact was greater on families with fewer resources before the hurricane who were provided limited support to return and rebuild. Insufficient community support and economic resources contributed to prolonged traumatiaation and slow recovery. Many were still recovering from Hurricane Katrina when impacted by the Gulf Oil Spill. For families with multigenerational ties to the fishing and oil industries, the Gulf Oil Spill resulted in both cumulative trauma and increased risk. In implementing the behavioural health response, much was learned about promotive and protective factors for individual and community resilience. Services provided following the disasters were based on precepts of individual, family, and community resilience. To enhance recovery and support resilience, the development of regional coalitions across at risk areas provides important coordination before disasters occur for better preparation and response.

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Communication With Children and Families About Disaster: Reviewing Multi-disciplinary Literature 2015–2017

Cited by 32 publications

References 50 publications

Earthquake Education Through the Use of Documentary Movies

Earthquake Education Through the Use of Documentary Movies

Initial Challenges of Caregiving During COVID-19: Caregiver Burden, Mental Health, and the Parent–Child Relationship

Hurricane Katrina and the Gulf Oil Spill: Lessons learned about short‐term and long‐term effects

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