Parent Tips for Helping Infants and Toddlers After Disasters

• 2018

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This document describes ways parents can help infants and toddlers after a disaster. It explains that young children may have trouble sleeping, eating, or being apart from parents. They might act out, cry more, or lose skills they had before. Parents are encouraged to be patient, offer comfort and routines, talk about feelings, and give extra attention. It also suggests letting children express sadness over lost people or things and finding ways to help them feel safe again. If problems last a long time or get worse, it recommends getting professional help.

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Focus Areas: Mental Health; Trauma

Audience: Families & Children

Emergency Management Stages: Response; Recovery

Keywords: Disasters; Grief; Infant; Parent-Child Relations; Parents; Stress, Psychological; Terrorism; Emotional Adjustment; Adaptation, Psychological; Psychological First Aid

Institutions: National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN)

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