Photo: Getty ImagesKnown as the quake generation, Canterbury youth have had anything but an easy childhood, with a decade of earthquake-related trauma. "Research indicates they will be resilient, able to handle hurdles... it'll create a growing youth movement who know how to handle a challenge." Graph: Supplied via RNZParents and caregivers should hold onto hope for their children if they were still overcoming trauma from the earthquakes, Liberty said. Researchers Kathleen Liberty and Maureen Allan Post-Traumatic Stress symptoms in earthquake-community children with clinically high levels of Post-Traumatic Stress on entry to school. In a random sample of 90 children from six kindergartens, the proportion of children with clinical post-traumatic stress symptoms decreased from 15.6 percent to 6.8 percent.

Source: Otago Daily Times February 21, 2021 03:33 UTC