{"id":36313,"date":"2012-12-20T16:15:48","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T16:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ny_times_children_can_usually_recover_from_emotional_trauma\/"},"modified":"2012-12-20T16:15:48","modified_gmt":"2012-12-20T16:15:48","slug":"ny_times_children_can_usually_recover_from_emotional_trauma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36313","title":{"rendered":"(NY Times) Children Can Usually Recover From Emotional Trauma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For young people exposed to gun trauma \u201d\u201d like the students of Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. \u201d\u201d the road to recovery can be long and torturous, marked by anxiety, nightmares, school trouble and even substance abuse. Witnessing lethal violence ruptures a child\u2019s sense of security, psychiatrists say, leaving behind an array of emotional and social challenges that are not easily resolved.<\/p>\n<p>But the good news is that most of these children will probably heal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost kids, even of this age, are resilient,\u201d\u009d said Dr. Glenn Saxe, chairman of child and adolescent psychiatry at NYU Langone Medical Center. \u201cThe data shows that the majority of people after a trauma, including a school assault, will end up doing O.K.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/12\/18\/health\/for-young-survivors-odds-of-emotional-recovery-are-high.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For young people exposed to gun trauma \u201d\u201d like the students of Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. \u201d\u201d the road to recovery can be long and torturous, marked by anxiety, nightmares, school trouble and even substance abuse. Witnessing<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36313\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,175,101,104,133,98,177,129,604,34,124,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-anthropology","category-children","category-health-medicine","category-history","category-marriage-family","category-pastoral-theology","category-psychology","category-stress","category-theology","category-violence","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}