Assisting Young Children Caught in Disasters

1. Introduction: Assisting Young Children Caught in Disasters
Judit Szente

Part I. Human Crises and Their Implications on the Education and the Social-Emotional Development of Young Children

2. The Impact of Community Violence Exposure on the Developmental Outcomes of Young Children of Color
Yvette R. Harris

3. When War and Terrorism Enter the Lives of Young Children
Judith A. Myers-Walls

4. Young Children in Military Families
Erica Culler, Tara Saathoff-Wells

5. Trafficking of Vulnerable Children in Southeast Asia
Deanna Davy

6. Coping with Parents’ Work Migration in China: The Stress and Adjustment of Children Who Got Left-Behind
Chun Tao, Paul A. Miller, Jun Gao

7. The Psychosocial Effects of Radiation Disasters on Young Children
John S. Murray

8. HIV/AIDS and the Socio-emotional Development of Children in Southern Africa
George Chitiyo, Morgan Chitiyo

9. When the Basic Necessities of Life Are Missing: The Impact of Poverty on Children
Judith N. Levin

Part II. Environmental Disasters and Their Implications on the Education and the Social-Emotional Development of Young Children

10. The Effects of Hunger on Physical and Cognitive Development of Children
Grace Jepkemboi

11. School Districts’ and Teachers’ Response to Hurricanes and Their Impact on Children
Holly K. Howat

12. Long Term Effects of the 2010 Earthquake on Haitian Children and Their Determination to Survive
Edwidge Crevecoeur Bryant, Emily Blum

13. Occurrence and Prevention of Frostbites in Children
Tiina Maria Ikäheimo

14. “Hope is in Our Hands:” Impacts of the Slave Lake Wildfires in Alberta, Canada on Children
Judith C. Kulig, Ivan Townshend, Anna Pujadas Botey, Blythe Shepard

15. Classroom Intervention with Young Children After a Tornado Disaster
Paul A. Miller, Chun Tao, Mary H. Burleson

16. Literature as Support: Using Picturebooks to Assist Young Children in Coping with Natural Disasters and Human Crises
Patricia A. Crawford, Sherron Killingsworth Roberts

Part III. Conclusion

17. Assisting Young Children Caught in Disasters: Lessons and Implications
Judit Szente

Nyckelord: Education, Early Childhood Education, Schools and Schooling, Teaching and Teacher Education, Educational Psychology