Published on Saturday, July 19, 2008
By Timothy A. Kelly
`WHAT do you say to a child who has lost one leg and both parents?" The question was posed to me by a young surgeon at the Shanghai Children's Medical Center. As a clinical psychologist, I had been invited to offer training for doctors and nurses on disaster recovery counseling, including treatment for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). This hospital, like many others all over China, was admitting children from Sichuan who had been severely wounded by the devastating 8.0 magnitude earthquake of May 12. What they were finding was that treating the physical wounds was the easy part. Much more difficult was figuring out what to do to help with the overwhelming grief and terror that so weighed on these poor little ones.
Nearly 70,000 people died in the Sichuan earthquake, over 350,000 were wounded, and about 5 million have lost their homes
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