By Genevra Pittman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - There's no good
evidence to say what types of treatment might help ward off
anxiety and stress disorders in kids and teens exposed to
traumatic events, according to a new analysis. Researchers said
that a few psychological interventions, including talk therapy
and school-based programs, "appear promising" for helping young
people cope with the kind of trauma stemming from accidents,
mass shootings and natural disasters. But so far, there are too
many holes in the data to know what to recommend for children's
long-term health and wellbeing, according to Meera Viswanathan
from RTI International in Research Triangle Park, North
Carolina, and her colleagues. Nicole Nugent, who has studied
stress disorders in kids at Warren Alpert Medical School of
Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, said one
difficulty is that children get exposed to many different types
of trauma, and as a result have many different treatment needs.
Nonetheless, "We can't just say, ‘Let's