Conference paper
THE INFLUENCE OF POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER OF WAR VETERANS ON THE MENTAL STATUS OF CHILDREN AND YOUNGER ADOLESCENTS
Zihnet Selimbašić
; Department of Psychiatry, University Clinical Center Tuzla, School of Medicine University of Tuzla, Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Abstract
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a spectrum disorder whose symptoms show psychological, neurobiological dysregulation and poorer functionality of a person on the social plane. PTSD characteristics are symptoms from four clusters: symptoms of intrusiveness, avoidance, negative changes in cognition and mood and changes in excitability and reactivity. Traumatic experiences of war veterans can have an impact on the development of psychopathology in their children's lives. The impact of posttraumatic stress disorder of war veterans is negatively manifested in a broader sense through secondary traumatization and is manifested differently in relation to the period of childhood and adolescence. The period of childhood and adolescence represents a delicate and dynamic period that requires adaptation and functionality in adulthood. The epidemiological studies so far indicate the link between the post-traumatic stress disorder of war veterans with the mental problems of their children.
Keywords
post-traumatic stress disorder; PTS; war veterans: mental status; children; younger adolescents; Bosnia and Herzegovina
Hrčak ID:
262573
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Publication date:
15.9.2020.
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