Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Postwar Kosovar Adolescents Using Mind-Body Skills Groups

Abstract

Kosovo began in early 1998. Fighting quickly spread to the Suhareka region, a fertile agricultural area in the southern part of Kosovo. Fighting, the burning of houses, the forced expulsion of residents, murders, beatings, rapes, and systematic massacres of groups of Albanian civilians continued through June 1999, when NATO troops entered Kosovo. Suhareka was particularly hard hit by the war. One of the largest single massacres in Kosovo occurred here. Ninety percent of all homes in the area were destroyed or …