Disaster mental health expert Karla Vermeulen draws on a combination of statistics, academic sources, and her own original research, including results from a nationally representative survey, to examine the unique challenges experienced by emerging adults post-9/11.
Introduction -- Section 1: Generation Disaster in Their Youth: Formative Experiences -- Meet Generation Disaster -- Parenting Post-9/ -- Lockdown Drills in Kindergarten: The Threat (Perceived and Actual) of School Shootings -- Section 2: Generation Disaster in Emerging Adulthood…
Generation disaster: coming of age post-9/11
"The "Introduction" chapter of Generation Disaster: Coming of Age Post-9/11 describes the book's premise: Current emerging adults (ages 18 to 29) have faced an unprecedented level of cumulative stressors throughout their lives, including the post-9/11 wars, school shootings and …
Generation disaster: coming of age post-9/11
"Generation Disaster: Coming of Age Post-9/11 is an in-depth examination of the multiple stressors that shaped the developmental environment for today’s emerging adults in their youth and as they now take on adult responsibilities in an unprecedentedly complex world. Those stres…