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For Adults and Older Teenagers
Even adults may find that using this book can help them understand better and cope better with their experiences. You can add your own questions as well as answering the questions asked of the children. You may also find that drawing or coloring the scenes may help you become calmer or help you to mentalize, remember your experiences and master them. Along with answers to "learning about the war" questions, the end of the book has a reading list for children and adolescents and a list of helpful resources. Relief efforts might be able to use your volunteer help, and that of your teenage children. Finally, a Mental Health Checklist tells you what kinds of behavior to be concerned about in your children or students during terror, war or other public stressor. Older children and teenagers as well become more clingy, dependent or angry if they have been overstressed by traumatic events. Try to tolerate but not completely accept such behavior. Affectionately state your expectations of future growth .
FOR USE AS A FAMILY
One very helpful way of using the book involves parents, brothers and sisters, and any other relatives frequently in the home, all working together. The sooner you begin to do this, the better. Each child can individually work on the same questions (each from his own workbook or on separate blank paper). Add the pages all together in one family project "About the War and Terror." When many children all work on one book, contributing their own reactions, each should sign his or her own name to his entries. Engaging in a "shared thinking and remembering" with adult leadership can help your children feel stronger and safer as they work on a joint project under your direction. This can also help bring your family closer together.
A social and family network approach helps children to have cognitive restructuring and reframing, learning new coping strategies in response to stressors.
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