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School Shootings and Therapeutic Interventions for Traumatized Victims

School Shootings and Therapeutic Interventions for Traumatized Victims

Abel Ebiega Enokela
Copyright: © 2022 |Pages: 24
ISBN13: 9781799852001|ISBN10: 1799852008|EISBN13: 9781799852018
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-5200-1.ch008
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Enokela, Abel Ebiega. "School Shootings and Therapeutic Interventions for Traumatized Victims." Impact of School Shootings on Classroom Culture, Curriculum, and Learning, edited by Gordon A. Crews, IGI Global, 2022, pp. 140-163. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-5200-1.ch008

APA

Enokela, A. E. (2022). School Shootings and Therapeutic Interventions for Traumatized Victims. In G. Crews (Ed.), Impact of School Shootings on Classroom Culture, Curriculum, and Learning (pp. 140-163). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-5200-1.ch008

Chicago

Enokela, Abel Ebiega. "School Shootings and Therapeutic Interventions for Traumatized Victims." In Impact of School Shootings on Classroom Culture, Curriculum, and Learning, edited by Gordon A. Crews, 140-163. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2022. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-5200-1.ch008

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Abstract

This study attempts an encapsulation of school shooting as a strand of mass violence with the purpose of presenting a perceived effective approach that could be therapeutically adopted for handling traumatized victims of school shooting incidents, particularly traumatized students. School violence involving firearms and high fatalities have been trending in many parts of the world. Pathetically, most of the students who are victims of school shootings receive inadequate or no therapeutic interventions that could help them to recover from the emotional trauma that usually accompany school violence. Students with trauma symptoms experience dysfunctional adaptation, leading to impairment of daily functionality, distortions in peer interactivity, and disruptive self-expressivity. This study leans on family system theory and elucidates how the application of this theory could help the traumatized to regain themselves psychosocially in order to maintain adaptation to function properly in the school or community.

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