Children and War

Publications

Here’s a list of published studies on research we have supported on the effects and consequences of war, warlike situations and disasters on children and their families. In addition, our manuals have also been used in at least two master’s and one doctoral study.

Please note that due to copyright laws, we are only able to add a link to an abstract, unless the study is published in an open access journals (highlighted in bold).

Publications using the CAW Manuals and Measures

Dillen, L., Fontaine, J. R. J., & Verhofstadt-Deneve, L. (2009). Confirming the distinctiveness of complicated grief from depression and anxiety. Death Studies, 33, 437–461.

Ehntholt, K., Smith, P. & Yule, W. (2005).  School-based CBT group intervention for refugee children who have experienced war-related trauma. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 10, 235-250.

Gedevanishvili, M.(Ed.) (2010) Child and War Trauma – Intervention and Treatment. Georgian Association for Mental Health, Tiblisi, Georgia.

Giannopoulo, I., Dikaiakou, A., & Yule, W. (2006). Cognitive–behavioural group intervention for PTSD symptoms in children following the Athens 1999 earthquake: A pilot study. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 11, 543–553.

Giannopoulo, I., Smith, P., Ecker, C., Strouthos, M., Dikaiakou, A., & Yule, W. (2006). Factor structure of the Children’s Revised Impact of Event Scale (CRIES) with children exposed to earthquake. Personality and Individual Differences, 40 (5), 1027 – 1037.

Giannopoulo, I., Strouthos, M., Smith, P., Dikaiakou, A., Galanopoulou, V. & Yule, W. (2006). Post traumatic stress reactions of children exposed to the Athens 1999 earthquake. European Psychiatry, 21 (3), 160-166.

Gudarzi, S. S., & Yasamy, M. T. (2007). Evolving epidemiology of the psychological conditions following Bam Earthquake. Paper presented at the 10th European Conference on Traumatic Stress, Opatija, Croatia, June.

Kalantari, M., Yule, W., Dyregrov, A., Neshatdoost, H. & Ahmadi, S.J. (2012) Efficacy of Writing for Recovery on Traumatic Grief Symptoms of Afghani Refugee Bereaved Adolescents. Omega, 45 (in press).

Nexhmedin Morina, Ulrike von Lersner, Holly G. Prigerson (2011). War and Bereavement: Consequences for Mental and Physical Distress. PLoS1.

Perrin, S., Meiser-Stedman, R. & Smith, P. (2005) The Children’s Revised Impact of Event Scale (CRIES): Validity as a screening instrument for PTSD. Behavioural and Cognitive Therapy, 33 (4), 487-498.

Papageorgiou, V., Frangou-Garunovic, A., Iordanidou, R., Yule, W., Smith, P. & Vostanis, P. (2000) War trauma and psychopathology in Bosnian refugee children. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 9, 84-90.

Smith, P., Perrin, S., Yule, W. & Rabe-Hesketh, S. (2001) War exposure and maternal reactions in the psychological adjustment of children from Bosnia-Hercegovina. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 42, 395-404.

Smith, P., Perrin, S., Dyregrov, A. & Yule, W. (2003) Principal components analysis of the impact of event scale with children in war. Personality and Individual Differences, 34 (2), 315-322.

Zhang, N., Zhang, Y., Wu, K., Zhu, Z., & Dyregrov, A. (2011) Factor Structure of the Children’s Revised Impact of Event Scale among Children and Adolescents Survived the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake in China. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 52, 236–241.

In submission:

Lange-Nielsen, I. I., Kolltveit, S., Thabet, A. A. M., Backer Johnsen, T. C. Dyregrov, A., Pallesen, S., & Laberg, J. C. (accepted). Risk factors of PTSD, anxiety and depression among adolescents in Gaza. Journal of Traumatic Stress.

Lange-Nielsen, I. I., Kolltveit, S., Thabet, A. A. M., Backer Johnsen, T. C. Dyregrov, A., Pallesen, S., & Laberg, J. C. (submitted). Short-Term Effects of a Writing Intervention among Adolescents in Gaza. Journal of Loss and Trauma.

Nuttorn, et al (2012) Randomized controlled trial of group cognitive behavioural therapy for PTSD in children and adolescents exposed to Tsunami in Thailand. (submitted)

Chen, Z., Liu, Y., Zhang, Y., & Dyregrov, A. (submitted).The Children’s Revised Impact of Event Scale (CRIES) with children and adolescents exposed to debris flood: Validity and Factor structure. Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences.

Barron, I., Abdullah, G. & Smith, P. (2012) Randomized control trial of a CBT Trauma Recovery program in Palestinian schools. (submitted).

Updated December 2011.