Resilience and Coping Intervention with Children and Adolescents in At-Risk Neighborhoods |
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| Authors: | Sandra F. Allen Betty Pfefferbaum Pascal Nitiéma Rose L. Pfefferbaum J. Brian Houston Grady S. McCarter III |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Terrorism and Disaster Center, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA;2. Terrorism and Disaster Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA;3. Phoenix Community College, Phoenix, Arizona, USA;4. Community Renewal International, Shreveport, Louisiana, USA |
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| Abstract: | This study evaluated the Resilience and Coping Intervention for Children (RCI), a group intervention to increase coping skills and resilience in children and adolescents. RCI was delivered to children and adolescents residing in five at-risk neighborhoods in a southern U.S. city. Children’s and adolescents’ self-report of coping strategies, strengths and difficulties with behaviors and emotions, and hope indicated decreased difficulties with behavior and emotions and increased feelings of hope postintervention. Parent report of difficulties with behavior and emotions revealed a significant decrease in children but not in adolescents. Mean scores for four coping dimensions increased, but the increase was not statistically significant. |
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| Keywords: | Adolescents children coping resilience stress trauma |
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