Children of trauma : stressful life events and their effects on children and adolescents /

Written by 20 international authors, the 11 essays in this volume broadly define trauma to include not only major events like war-related stress and posttraumatic stress, but also pregnancy and bullying. Articles discuss diagnosis, measurement, examples, and treatment. There are some significant pieces that are unlikely to be found anywhere else, e.g., a study of the effects on children and adolescents of a large-scale natural disaster, and the Armenian Earthquake of 1988, which killed more than 25,000 people in 41 seconds and injured another 78,000. In addition, there are numerous helpful suggestions for the research and applied work that needs to be done in this important field. Some of the contributions are original empirical articles; others, however, appear to be condensed versions of larger works. Also, the quality of the essays is mixed. The volume would have profited from subdivisions and an introduction that served more to organize and comment than to summarize. Graduate, faculty. K. M. Dillon; Western New England College