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In the days and weeks following Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, a person could not turn on a television set, tune in a radio station or read a newspaper or magazine without hearing about and seeing the images of displaced adults and children searching for the basic necessities of life. From thousands of people huddled in the flooded and hot Louisiana Superdome to families and groups of people sleeping on bridges and the sides of roads holding signs begging for food or water, our nation and the world saw the human damage causes by nature during a hurricane. But after a few weeks the images and stories became less and less and now it is difficult to find these same images stories in the news media. While the images and some of the suffering for the people of New Orleans and the entire Gulf Coast region might have subsided, one study and wealth of psychological data show that for children, the effects of Hurricane Katrina and in fact all natural disasters go way beyond just the......

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