Экспериментальная психология (Jan 2016)

Psychological characteristics of Syrian adolescents’ adaptation to extreme situations of sociogenic character

  • N.B. Karabuschenko,
  • A.V. Ivashchenko,
  • N.L. Sungurova,
  • Masri I. Al Masri

DOI
https://doi.org/10.17759/exppsy.2016090307
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 3
pp. 81 – 90

Abstract

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This article describes psychological characteristics of adaptation of Syrian adolescents in refugee camps to the extreme sociogenic situation. The overview of research on adaptation as a psychological phenomenon; the analysis of the contemporary Arab psychological literature on this issue; the definition of the concept “extreme situation”; the results of studies of the Syrian teenagers’ adaptation in the conditions of military crisis; perspective areas of psychological counselling of those teenagers, who experienced this crisis, are presented in this article.