Psychological difficulties demonstrated by young children who experienced the Great East Japan Earthquake and its aftershocks

• 영문명: Psychological difficulties demonstrated by young children who experienced the Great East Japan Earthquake and its aftershocks
• 발행기관: 아시아아동지원학회
• 저자명: TOKUDA Katsumi,MIZUNO Tomomi
• 간행물 정보: 『아시아아동지원연구』3호, 1~8쪽, 전체 8쪽
• 주제분류: 사회과학 > 사회복지학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2012.03.30

영문 초록

The quake ofthe scale 7 intensity and the damage from tsunami caus ed by the Great Western Japan Earth Quake in March 11th 2011 were quite extensive. Television programs continued to broadcast the images of dreadful disast ers every day for about a month. Also, children are frightened by the aftershocks that happen every day and when that happens, they are scolded by their‘ parents or nursery teachers to evacuate quickly. Also, the adults are telling the children that "you will die if you don’t hide under the desks quickly. If you die, you cannot see your mom, dad, or your fri ends again." Those words are threatening the children and hurting their fe elings Beca us e of those r easons, there are many cas es that even the children who are not affected by the earthquake or tsunami are in "psychologic ally inappropriate co nditi on " TV programs are broadcasting less images of the disaster. However, the aftershocks are still coming and every time that happens, children are being anxious. Some children even have night terrors and refusing to go to sch ool which are the signs of psychologically inappropriate condition In this paper, I would like to explain how nursery teachers should handle the children who are frigh tening by the aftershocks