Helping Children Process Trauma After Mass Shootings

Children exposed to mass shooting incidents experience psychological trauma with potential long-term mental health consequences including PTSD and anxiety disorders.

In the aftermath of the San Diego mosque shooting, children who were present carry a psychological weight that science has learned to measure and, to some degree, address. Proximity to violence is the sharpest predictor of lasting harm — the closer a child was to the gunfire, the deeper the potential reshaping of how they understand fear and safety. Psychologists remind us that while parents cannot absorb this burden entirely, their steady, emotionally present response is the first and most powerful buffer between a child's wound and its becoming a permanent scar.

Helping Children Process Trauma After Mass Shootings

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