The families of ABC News\' co-anchor Bob Woodruff and cameraman Doug Vogt are coping with a trauma that\'s all too familiar to those with loved ones serving in Iraq . Woodruff, who has four school-aged children with his wife, Lee, and Vogt, who has three young daughters with his wife, Vivian, were seriously injured Sunday by an improvised explosive device while traveling with a convoy near Taji , Iraq . An Iraqi soldier also was injured in the blast. Beth Ann Brooks, a professor working in child and adolescent psychiatry at Wayne State University in Michigan , said that all children needed information, though younger ones should receive briefer and less-detailed explanations. \"No matter the age,\" Brooks said, \"the more serious the injured\'s condition, there should be care taken to ease into the subject gradually with a lead-in like: \'Remember when Mr. Smith, our neighbor, was in that car accident last year and was in the hospital? Well, today we learned that. … \' \"