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CARING FOR CHILD PSYCHOTRAUMA: LESSONS FROM BOSNIA

Osman Sinanović orcid.org/0000-0001-8957-7284 ; Medical Faculty, University of Tuzla, Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina Sarajevo Medical School, University Sarajevo, School of Science and Technology, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

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The war in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992-1995) was an extremely hard traumatic event with different losses, separations of
people, injuries, hard physical and psychical suffering of everyone. Children were especially in difficult conditions.
One of the most remarkable things about children, as anyone who works with them soon finds out, is their resilience. While
children are vulnerable to psychic damage and, if the damage is deep enough, to delays in emotional and even physical growth, they also have an astonishing capacity to bounce back. This is one of the most rewarding things about treating traumatized children. For many children, it takes very little, perhaps only some words of understanding, to help them tap into their own ability to heal. Taking care of child war psycho-trauma was a difficult task for me, as the war-time head of Department of psychiatry, without enough knowledge in child psycho-trauma and as person with a high responsibility, to organize together with other psychological caretakers of children, especially refugee children. This presentation will be some kind of my remembrance of period of 20-25 years ago when we, I think did good work of what we could and what we knew.

Ključne riječi

Bosnia and Herzegovina; war 1992-1995; child war psycho-trauma

Hrčak ID:

262565

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/262565

Datum izdavanja:

15.9.2020.

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