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How to help children traumatized by war

Widespread violence takes a serious toll on children’s mental health. But there are ways to alleviate the suffering.
  1. Fadi Maalouf

    1. Fadi Maalouf is chair at the Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center, American University of Beirut, Lebanon.

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Omar was playing video games in his room with his headphones on when the Beirut port explosion happened in August 2020. When the 10-year-old boy ran into the living room, he saw his mother on the floor covered in blood and his father trying to remove the partially broken glass window that had fallen on her. Omar (not his real name) was bought to see me a few weeks after the explosion. He was having trouble falling asleep and was scared to go to school.

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Nature 612, S53 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-04345-5

This article is part of Nature Outlook: Children‘s health, an editorially independent supplement produced with the financial support of third parties. About this content.

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  1. Maalouf, F. T. et al. J. Affect. Disord. 302, 58–65 (2022).

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