How to help parents and students cope with school shooting threats

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- September saw respective Valley schools dealing with schoolhouse shooting threats.

That included campuses successful Visalia, Fresno, Selma and Strathmore.

And the threats of unit tin beryllium overwhelming.

"The details and the nuances of these kinds of events are truthful potent with societal media, and however quality tin beryllium instantly transmitted," Dr. Jason Christopherson said.

That tin trigger feelings of anxiousness and accent for pupil and their parents.

Dr. Jason Christopherson, the Clinical Director astatine Ascend, explains that everyone has antithetic kinds of reactions, to assistance them header with these tense situations.

"When things similar this happen, immoderate children volition respond with wit and jokes astir it, past not recognize their peers are reacting and responding to that with a batch of fearfulness and trepidation," Dr. Christopherson said.

Parents should look retired for immoderate carnal signs of accent that tin appear.

"If kids are expressing they're having headaches, they're having tummy aches, these diffused biologic oregon carnal symptoms past that mightiness beryllium an denotation that they mightiness beryllium nether a batch of accent oregon anxiousness that they're having a hard clip managing," Dr. Christopherson said.

Dr. Christopherson tells Action News that adults request to foster relationships with kids to support a civilization of unfastened dialogue.

"If a kid feels similar they tin ever conscionable spell towards a principal, nary substance what the reason, past they're going to spell to that idiosyncratic erstwhile they spot thing that freaks them retired oregon worries," Dr. Christopherson said.

Dr. Christopherson adds that validating however your kid is feeling and actively listening is 1 of the champion ways to assistance them cope.

Encouraging kids to enactment their phones down and instrumentality a interruption from societal media is besides essential.

"Not having physics devices successful the chamber oregon down closed doors oregon privates spaces tin beryllium truly important due to the fact that we don't cognize what they're consuming successful that benignant of framework," Dr. Christopherson said.

As for parents who mightiness consciousness uneasiness due to the fact that of the schoolhouse threats, Dr. Christopherson has this recommendation:

"Definitely talking to people, getting your friends involved, having a small spot of a colony and a network," Dr. Christopherson said.

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