A preventive pilot project addressing multiethnic tensions in the wake of the Iraq war.
This article describes a school-based preventive pilot project for recent immigrant children, designed to decrease anxiety and intergroup tensions associated with the Iraq war. Results suggest that clinicians should address the multiplicity of meanings associated with international events when planning a prevention program in multiethnic schools to help children to cope with the increasingly common gap between the ways traumatic events covered by the media are understood at home and at school.
Rousseau
Cécile
C
Transcultural Psychiatry Team, Montreal Children's Hospital, Montreal, PQ, Canada. cecile.rousseau@muhc.mcgill.ca
Machouf
Anousheh
A
D000069:Acculturation; D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D001007:Anxiety / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000523:psychology; D002648:Child; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011287:Prejudice; D011610:Psychosocial Deprivation; D011792:Quebec; D012574:Schools; D012931:Social Environment; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000523:psychology; D023481:Terrorism / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology; D014857:Warfare