Trauma exposure in childhood impairs the ability to recall specific autobiographical memories in late adolescence

Brennen, Tim; Hasanović, Mevludin; Zotović, Marija; Blix, Ines; Skar, Ane‐Marthe Solheim; Prelić, Nera Kravić; Mehmedović, Indira; Pajević, Izet; Popović, Nemanja; Gavrilov‐Jerković, Vesna

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“…Papageorgiou et al (10) found on the Impact of Event Scale (IES) (23) a significant association between the number of war traumatic experiences and the intrusion and avoidance scores (10). Brennen et al (24) in their study provided evidence that BH adolescents who were exposed to trauma in childhood have difficulty retrieving specific autobiographical memories (24). To evaluate the psychometric properties of the IES scale in children Dyregrov et al (25) conducted a study on 1787 children exposed to warfare in Croatia and BH.…”

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Psychological consequences of war-traumatized children and adolescents in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Hasanović

2011

AMA

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²Research into the psychosocial consequences of war and political violence on children's and adolescent's developmental wellbeing has shown a steady increase over the last decades. Numerous studies, from differing cultures in different war zones around the world, have documented the effect on children of exposure to war atrocities. The war in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BH) 1992-1995, at the end of 20 th century found the citizens of BH and the world mental health professionals and scientists unprepared to deal with the adverse consequences for the entire BH population and especially for its most vulnerable part, children and adolescents, to be able to take adequate measures of sufficient mental health care to prevent devastating consequences of severe multiple traumas. Only a few research studies were done during and after this war in BH, the United States, Sweden, Norway, the UK and Germany focusing on the relationship between war trauma, Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, suicidal thoughts, acculturation, repatriation, poverty, behavioral problems, school adjustment, relational problems of children and their mothers after deployment of war PTSD veterans and war prisoners, and treatment of psychological consequences in examined children and adolescents from BH. The major part of this paper reviewed available literature on Medline that reported national and international studies which investigated the psychological consequences of war on BH children and adolescents and several papers about children and adolescents from Srebrenica, that were not indexed on Medline, but showed very crucial results for the issue described.

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Psychological consequences of war-traumatized children and adolescents in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Hasanović

2011

AMA

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“…Traumatic experience has overall far reaching consequences on personality. In particular, it has significant impact on teenagers that are just approaching the phase of solving their identity problems [7,8]. The group that had the most difficult time with postwar adjustment, was the one comprised of young adults who, during war time, were children, ages five to 12 years old.…”

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“…Traumatic events experienced by thousands of people during this conflict may very well have a lasting effect on the mental health of the country [5,7].…”

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“…For adolescents who lost their fathers, the combining of dangerous environments during war and their own personal experiences on the outside of their homeland could leave them exposed to a large number of traumatic stressors that could subsequently lead to severe PTSD and many different behavioral dysfunctions [2,5,7,8,10]. PTSD and behavioral dysfunctions in general could affect an adolescents' ability of achieving their life goals in the future, because of an overwhelming loss of perceived power and selfesteem [15].…”

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The acculturation and repatriation problems and school behavioral problems reported from teachers among repatriated refugee adolescents in Bosnia-Herzegovina

Hasanović¹,

Pajević²,

Pavlovic³

2017

Trauma Emerg Care

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Objectives: To describe the acculturation and repatriation problems and school behavior problems reported from teachers who were amidst Bosnia-Herzegovina (BH) repatriated school adolescents who were refugees after the 1992-1995 war, and to analyze possible differences between primary and secondary school students. Methods:The sample of 100 adolescents aged of 15.2 ± 2.4 years consisted from two groups: elementary and secondary school students (n=50, both equalized by gender), who survived the 1992-1995 war catastrophes, and were forced to spend certain refugee period in foreign country during and after this war. They were prevented to return to their original home places after repatriation because of no safety there. We used General questionnaire for personal information and trauma experiences, Personal questionnaire for acculturation and repatriation, and teacher's version of the Children Behavior Check list, for (Achenbach CBCL). Results:Younger students reported lower adjustment and tendency to internalization. Older adolescents reported more intensive externalizing and other problems. Older adolescents reported significantly more often "thinking about his/her native place on arrival at the place of exile" and "thoughts about cousins", while younger students reported more often "couldn't play outside". Teachers reported a number of behavioral disorders that returnees showed high maladjustment during repatriation. Returnees with greater acculturation problems showed increased functional and relational problems, however, with less psycho-emotional problems after repatriation. Conclusion:Younger students showed tendency to internalization and older adolescents showed significantly more intensive externalizing problems and other problems. Teachers have noticed a number of behavioral disorders that returnees showed as higher maladjustment during repatriation. Acculturation problems abroad were associated with functional and relational problems after returned at home.

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“…Wars have always caused traumatic experience for a large portion of a population affected by this catastrophic occurrence caused by a human factor (Avdibegović et al 2008;Brennen et al 2010;Hasanović 2011Hasanović , 2012Kravic et al 2013). Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a highly prevalent, often chronic medical-psychiatric disorder that occurs in a number of people exposed to a traumatic event(s) (Pavlovic et al 2012).…”

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Religious Moral Beliefs Inversely Related to Trauma Experiences Severity and Presented Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Among Bosnia and Herzegovina War Veterans

Hasanović

Pajević

2014

J Relig Health

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The aim of this study was to determine the correlation of the level of religious moral beliefs (RMB) with trauma experiences and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) severity in war veterans of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The sample consists of 120 Bosnian war veterans divided into two equal groups-one with and one without PTSD. We used the Harvard Trauma Questionnaire and the RMB belief scale. We then correlated the severity of trauma experiences and PTSD symptoms with veterans' scores on the RMB scale. The score on the RMB scale was negatively correlated to severity of trauma experiences and PTSD symptoms (Pearson's r = -0.509, P = 0.004; Pearson's r = -0.325, P < 0.001, respectively). The RMB may have protective role in the mental health stability of severely traumatized war veterans.

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Trauma exposure in childhood impairs the ability to recall specific autobiographical memories in late adolescence

Cited by 32 publications

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The acculturation and repatriation problems and school behavioral problems reported from teachers among repatriated refugee adolescents in Bosnia-Herzegovina

Religious Moral Beliefs Inversely Related to Trauma Experiences Severity and Presented Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Among Bosnia and Herzegovina War Veterans

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