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dentify those students who are at the greatest risk of psychological trauma.

It's called a triage: Those who witnessed the violence are most at risk, followed by those who knew the shooter or the victim. Then it will be counsellors' responsibility to help those who have a history of violence.

"Trauma in the present has a ripple to the past," she said. Parents should watch their child for change of behaviour, nightmares and a fear of going back to school.

"The good news is that 75 per cent of children, with good support, do fairly well after the first week or two. They may be anxious every now and again but they do fairly well," she said. "But if they continue to have anxiety not able to sleep at night, not wanting to go to school if these symptoms persist or if they continue to dwell on the incident or have flashbacks or uncontrolled obsessive thoughts about it, these are children who need a crisis assessment."

Often parents will exacerbate the situation by trying to keep their kids at home. But Wong said that letting potentially traumatized children have the run of the house can be disastrous.

"Staying at home isn't the safest thing to do because parents not at home have to work. You might find students wandering around the streets or getting into trouble with friends, and being in situations where they might be traumatized more. School is the best place for them to be in, especially as they have these enhanced resources for crisis counselling," she said.

The best thing a parent can do is to listen to their kids, and to find out as much information from the school as possible as to whether crisis counselling is available and what additional security is being put in place to make kids feel safe returning to the classroom.

"Parents should make sure that their kids are comfortable and safe. This might be a time when they don't go out with their friends so much, that they stay home and
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