For thousands of students, their healing journey only begins when the cameras leave to cover a different school shooting tragedy.
of practices for counselors to employ when helping students after a school shooting, including trying to keep student routines as normal as possible, limiting exposure to the news and to “be honest with kids and share with them as much information as they are developmentally able to handle.”
Given the frequency with which school shootings occur in the U.S., a news cycle that spends a few days focusing on one specific tragedy likely moves on to a different story quickly. For most students, moving on from the trauma isn’t that simple. Akins said that the crisis may remind students of prior losses or even increase reactivity to other, unrelated stressors.
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