HISTORICAL, CLINICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL PECULIARITIES FOR FORMATION OF POSTTRAUMMATIC STRESS DISORDER

Abstract

The historical aspects of the formation of the global problem of modern society - post-traumatic stress disorders (PTSD), reveals the clinical and psychological characteristics of their formation, both in adults and in children have been examined in the article. The aim of the study is to analyze the world experience of modern views on the problem of PTSD, as well as to study the main mechanisms for the formation of this disorder and the available risk factors for the disease. The study examined 2 groups of children and adolescents aged 7–18 years: 305 from families of forced migrants and 60 people from the control group, which included children from ordinary families. The main clinical and psychological characteristics of the development of PTSD were analyzed. According to literary sources, PTSD has a significant prevalence, both in our state and around the world, which actualizes this problem against the background of recent world and domestic events. Emphasis and development of this psychosomatic pathology is in childhood, given the fairly wide variety of clinical manifestations, and a significant psycho-traumatic effect on the unformed children's personality. The work identified the main risk factors for PTSD and the influence of psycho-traumatic factors on the formation of personality-characterological personality traits.

Keywords

• children
• post-traumatic
• stress
• disorder
• traumatic