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Resilience and Coping Intervention with Children and Adolescents in At-Risk Neighborhoods

  • Sandra F. Allen
  • , Betty Pfefferbaum
  • , Pascal Nitiéma
  • , Rose L. Pfefferbaum
  • , J. Brian Houston
  • , Grady S. McCarter
  • , Shelley Ryan Gray

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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.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)85-98
Number of pages14
JournalJournal of Loss and Trauma
Volume21
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 3 2016
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Adolescents
  • children
  • coping
  • resilience
  • stress
  • trauma

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Phychiatric Mental Health
  • Social Psychology
  • Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
  • Psychiatry and Mental health

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