PTSD in Children

Children also may be vulnerable to PTSD, studies suggest.
Time (7/22, Hamilton) reported that "new research on child survivors of Hurricane Katrina and witnesses of the 9/11 terrorist attacks" suggests that "young children and teens not only exhibit symptoms of posttraumatic stress and depression that are similar to those of adults, but that they may react more strongly to trauma because adults do." Recent studies "also show that younger children and girls are more likely to develop symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) than boys and older kids." Notably, "girls of any age were twice as likely as boys to have problems adapting after" a disaster, studies found.