Acta Iadertina, Vol. 4 No. 1, 2007.
Pregledni rad
PTSD and ways of confronting stress in war-traumatized children
Mladen Mavar
; Psihijatrijska bolnica Ugljan
Sažetak
In this study, the results of investigation are presented, carried out on the children, who, duringthe war, experienced different traumatic events, with the aim of establishing the experiencedtraumas, symptomatology of posttraumatic stress disorder, that is, the degree of subjectivestress and manifested anxiety. The children had more than one event of war experience, theaverage number was more than eight. In addition to, 20% of children estimate high degree ofthe subjective stress with the characteristics of PTSD, while 18.5% of children show clinicallyexpressed symptoms of anxiety. Due to important therapy implications and guidelines for thework with those children, the strategies of coping were examined, the most frequently used bythe children in the stress situations in this sample. The most part of children in the problematicsituations ask for the support from the adults or friends, and it is more efficient way of selfsupportin the difficult situations. However, the problem is in fact that after the frequency ofuse, it follows the strategy of avoiding and it does not help in the long-term problem solving.As the children are included in the project of psychosocial care, the results of the investigationenable the planning of the games, exercises and techniques of the work in the psychological– teaching (pedagogic) workshops what will develop the skills of more efficient coping. Theresults will facilitate the identification of the children with the emphasized symptomatology, andthe additional individual approach is needed.
Ključne riječi
anxiety; children; degree of subjective stress; PTSD; stress coping strategies; war trauma
Hrčak ID:
190052
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14.10.2017.
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