How To Look After a Child Through Conflict & Displacement

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This video provides guidance for adults caring for children during conflict and displacement. It explains common emotional and physical reactions adults might experience and suggests strategies to cope, such as recognizing the challenge, using personal skills, seeking support, maintaining routines, ensuring safety, providing warmth and support, giving praise, spending time together, encouraging play, and maintaining a routine. It also touches on understanding children's reactions, emphasizing safety, warmth, praise, spending time together, encouraging play, and maintaining routines as ways to support children through difficult times.

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Hazards: Trauma; Violence

Audiences: Behavioral Health Professionals; Families & Children; Nurses; Physicians; Schools & Childcare Providers

Emergency Management Stages: Response; Recovery; Preparedness (Prevention / Protection)

Keywords: Displacement, Psychological; Warfare and Armed Conflicts; Trauma and Stressor Related Disorders

Institutions: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

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