Publications and Research
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Spring 5-27-2025
Abstract
This review article is on the psychological effects of ongoing violence on children living in Gaza through a trauma-informed approach to bring together research from academic articles, clinical studies, and journalistic reports published between 2023 and 2025. Based on the sources selected, their focus is on children’s mental health and whether they came from trusted and credible platforms. Rather than just summarizing the research, the paper uses relevant sources to understand how distress shows up in children with mental health struggles such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), dissociative amnesia, and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Questions like how they are related to long-term exposure to genocide, displacement, and fear may occur throughout the article to show how these symptoms reflect how brutality affects young people’s growth. Theories and child development models explain how constant adversity affects memory, identity, and development. This paper calls attention to the mental health crisis among children in Gaza and shows why long-term support is needed. It urges mental health workers, educators, and the global community to see these children as individuals trying to survive in challenging conditions.
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