This monographic special focused on the attacks that had taken place 10 days previously in Barcelona and Cambrils. According to psychologists and educational specialists, when an event as distressing as this occurs, it is best to bring it out into the open and talk about it. The aim of the program was to provide information on what happened, so that children age 9 to 12 can understand it, thanks to the use of age-appropriate language and a contextualization of events. This time it was the children themselves who, for one day, played the role of journalists. They put forth all of their questions, doubts, fears and worries to different experts: specialists in security questions, terrorism, emotion management, and Islamism. What is terrorism? Why do the attacks occur? What does that have to do with Islam? Is fear a natural response? What do I do when that happens? How do the police respond in going after the ‘bad guys’? These questions were answered during the course of the program, with the support of graphic material, but avoiding at all costs, violent images. In addition, efforts were made to provide a larger context, so that the children could understand what happened. Priority was placed on dealing with emotions such as fear, sadness and anger.
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