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Studies Track Psychological Response to Mass Violence

Lynne Lamberg

JAMA. 2003;290:587-589.

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San Francisco—Epidemiological assessment of the mental health consequences of terrorist attacks, wars, and torture holds practical implications for treatment of those exposed to such events. Findings also may spur development of better ways to minimize adverse effects of future episodes of violence on both individuals and society at large.

Researchers from several countries reviewed studies and provided perspectives derived from experience working with adults and children exposed to mass violence in a symposium held at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association here in May, and in subsequent interviews.

A BOMBING IN KENYA

On August 7, 1998, terrorists detonated a truck bomb outside the US Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, killing at least 219 people and injuring about 5000 others. The US Embassy at Dar es Salaam in neighboring Tanzania was bombed the same day, killing at least 10 people and injuring 74. Frank Njenga, MD, a . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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