ABSTRACT
Trauma and post-trauma have become over recent years one of the main topics in research and treatment due to increasing violence and terrorism against civilian populations around the world. Studies conducted after terrorist attacks in Oklahoma City (Pfefferbaum, Nixon, & Krug, 1999), New York City (Hoven et al., 2002; Schuster et al., 2001), Israel (Bleich, Gelkopf, & Solomon, 2003), and elsewhere showed that 10-16% of adults and children suffered from chronic PTSD that caused significant difficulties in functioning. The vast media exposure after the 9/11 attack in New York also increased the number of people with PTSD (Cantor, 2000; Stuber et al., 2002). On the other hand, a very small number of people, especially children, received psychological treatment in the sub-acute and chronic stages of PTSD.
