College Students and Disasters

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The paper discusses the importance of grief counseling and the physical and mental health concerns of students. The paper relates that if not addressed properly, anxiety, depression, and/or post traumatic stress disorder can result. The paper examines the causes of PTSD, as well as how the diagnosis is established and what types of symptoms are often present. The paper brings examples from Hurricane Katrina, the shootings at Columbine high school and the collapse of the twin towers.

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"Educational administrators are always in search of ways to help students overcome and adapt in situations that are seemingly out of their hands, for example, the disastrous Hurricane Katrina event. Continuing education on life cycles after a disaster can help administrators formulate steps for future crisis situations (Becker, 2006). How students react after a catastrophe can be associated with grades, finances, physical, and emotional stress. This is unfortunate, but yet takes place all too often, and could likely be addressed much more comprehensively than it is by many schools."

Sample of Sources Used:

• American Psychiatric Association. (1987). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders. 3d ed rev. Washington, D.C.: American Psychiatric Association: 247-51.
• Belkin, L. (1999, October 31). Parents blaming parents. New York Times Sunday Magazine, p. F61.
• Boss, P. (1999). Ambiguous Loss: Learning to Live with Unresolved Grief. Harvard University Press, MA.
• Bowlby, J. (1977). The making and breaking of affectional bonds, I and II. British Journal of Psychiatry, (130), 201-210, 421-431.
• Bowlby, L. (1980). Attachment and loss: Vol. III. Loss--Sadness and depression. New York: Basic Books.

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