Open AccessPost-traumatic stress disorder and coping strategies in psychotraumatized refugees
Author(s) -
Tamara Čavić,
Dusica Lečić-Toševski,
M. Pejović
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
medicinski pregled
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1820-7383
pISSN - 0025-8105
DOI - 10.2298/mpns0802011c
Subject(s) - coping (psychology) , stressor , cognition , traumatic stress , refugee , medicine , clinical psychology , ethnic group , cognitive processing therapy , psychology , cognitive therapy , psychiatry , archaeology , sociology , anthropology , history
In extreme life events basic assumptions are frequently reassessed and changed. Therefore, trauma requires re-education. Effective coping strategies enable individual to tolerate, minimize, accept or ignore what one cannot manage and to moderate the consequences of stressful, traumatic events.