Predicting adolescent posttraumatic stress in the aftermath of war: Differential effects of coping strategies across trauma reminder, loss reminder, and family conflict domains

Howell, Kathryn H.; Kaplow, Julie B.; Layne, Christopher; Benson, Molly A.; Compas, Bruce E.; Katalinski, Ranka; Pašalić, Hafiza; Bosankic, Nina; Pynoos, Robert S.

doi:10.1080/10615806.2014.910596

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“…A more frequent use of engagement coping strategies in everyday situations, such as problem-focused coping and cognitive restructuring, was associated with higher levels of PTSD symptoms and internalizing problems, which is inconsistent with studies that found engagement strategies to be related to lower levels of mental health problems in refugee children and adults [13,14,[70][71][72]. However, other studies found that more problem-focused coping was associated with higher levels of internalizing problems in sample of adult Syrian refugees living in Turkey close to the Syrian border [73] and with the presence of PTSD in Bosnian refugee youth waiting for the resolution of their asylum claims [15].…”

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“…In the coping literature, engagement coping strategies, including problemfocused coping, support seeking, emotion regulation and cognitive restructuring, have been generally associated with positive mental health outcomes [12]. In a study with waraffected Bosnian adolescents [13], a greater use of engagement strategies was associated with lower levels of PTSD symptoms. Syrian children who coped by acquiring social support and trying to reframe events also reported fewer PTSD symptoms [14].…”

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A socio-ecological analysis of risk, protective and promotive factors for the mental health of Burundian refugee children living in refugee camps

Scharpf

Mkinga

Masath

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Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry

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Children and adolescents’ mental health risk and resilience arise from a complex interplay of factors on several socio-ecological levels. However, little is known about the factors that shape the mental health of refugee youth living in refugee camps close to ongoing conflict. We conducted a cross-sectional study with a representative sample of 217 Burundian refugee children aged 7–15 and their mothers residing in refugee camps in Tanzania to investigate associations between risk, protective and promotive factors from various ecological levels (individual, microsystem, exosystem), and children’s post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, internalizing and externalizing problems, and prosocial behavior. Data were collected using structured clinical interviews and analyzed using multiple regression models. Exposure to violence across all contexts and engagement coping were risk factors for PTSD symptoms and internalizing problems, while only violence by mothers seemed to increase children’s vulnerability for externalizing problems. A differential impact of violence exposures on prosocial behavior was observed. Higher-quality friendships appeared to protect youth from PTSD symptoms and externalizing problems, while they also promoted children’s prosocial behavior, just as mothers’ social support networks. Prevention and intervention approaches should integrate risk, protective and promotive factors for refugee youth’s mental health across multiple ecological contexts and take into account context-specific and adaptive responses to war and displacement.

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A socio-ecological analysis of risk, protective and promotive factors for the mental health of Burundian refugee children living in refugee camps

Scharpf

Mkinga

Masath

et al. 2020

Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry

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“…The grief field is in need of research designs and conceptual frameworks that clarify potentially differential relations between specific characteristics of bereavement (e.g., circumstances of the death [13]), age-related reactions to the loss (e.g., coping [14], grief reactions [15]), and developmental trajectories across the lifespan (10,16,17), including risks for proximal and distal adverse outcomes (e.g., substance abuse, depression) (5). The Keyes et al study contributes to such theory-building work by using a large population-based sample and focusing on a range of psychiatric outcomes across the life course.…”

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Sudden Loss and Psychiatric Disorders Across the Life Course: Toward a Developmental Lifespan Theory of Bereavement-Related Risk and Resilience

Kaplow¹,

Layne²

2014

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“…The individual. Research on risk and protective factors, and specifically research with refugee children, has identified several psychological factors, such as self-regulation and coping skills, that are associated with better mental health (Aitcheson et al, 2017;Howell et al, 2015). Cognitive resources may protect individuals or promote adaptive development by enabling them to cope with environmental stressors.…”

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Psychological Resilience in Response to Adverse Experiences

Popham¹,

McEwen²,

Pluess³

2021

Multisystemic Resilience

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In the field of developmental psychology, resilience is broadly understood as positive adaptation despite exposure to adversity. The concept provides an explanation for the wide variability in mental health outcomes observed in children exposed to adverse experiences. Although resilience has become an important and influential concept in the field, some fundamental questions remain, such as how it should be defined and operationalized and what the specific processes are that lead to positive mental health outcomes in some children but not others. These questions are particularly relevant in the context of the global refugee crisis to understand and promote resilience in children exposed to war and displacement. In this chapter the authors argue that a holistic view is required to understand resilience and provide a model integrating five important psychological concepts. The five components of our integrated model of resilience suggest that (a) development is nested within multiple psychosocial and bio-ecological systems; (b) individual differences in environmental sensitivity influence the individual response to both negative and positive aspects of the environment; (c) resilience mechanisms can be investigated across multiple levels of analysis; (d) the conceptualization of positive adaptation should consider multiple outcome dimensions; and (e) resilience represents a developmental process that needs to be examined longitudinally. After presenting this model, the authors review empirical studies in relation to each of these five components and suggest how they can be further applied in the study of resilience to war and displacement in refugee children.

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Predicting adolescent posttraumatic stress in the aftermath of war: Differential effects of coping strategies across trauma reminder, loss reminder, and family conflict domains

Abstract: These findings shed light on ways in which trauma reminders, loss reminders, and family conflict may intersect with coping responses to influence adolescent postwar adjustment.

Cited by 62 publications

References 33 publications

A socio-ecological analysis of risk, protective and promotive factors for the mental health of Burundian refugee children living in refugee camps

A socio-ecological analysis of risk, protective and promotive factors for the mental health of Burundian refugee children living in refugee camps

Sudden Loss and Psychiatric Disorders Across the Life Course: Toward a Developmental Lifespan Theory of Bereavement-Related Risk and Resilience

Psychological Resilience in Response to Adverse Experiences

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