title: Torture victims and mechanisms of coping with stress.
abstract: The research has been performed over the torture victims during the aggression against Bosnia and Herzegovina. All patients-torture victims were of a different nationality as compared to the aggressors. The goal of the study was to register strategies of coping with stress in patients-torture victims before and after a three- month long treatment. All tested patients were psychologically tortured and physically abused. Strategies of coping with stress registered in tortured victims before the beginning of treatment and after a three-month combined psychotherapeutic and pharmacoterapeutic treatment. After completion of treatment, there was a significant increase in frequency of seeking social support, whereas accepting of responsibility was significantly decreased. Positive coping strategies like self-control, positive reinterpretation and planned problem-solving show a slight increase after the treatment, but the resu1ts are not significant.
authors.affiliation: Clinical Centre of the University of Sarajevo - Psychiatric Clinic, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
authors.forename: Abdulah
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kucukalić
authors.forename: Alma
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bravo-Mehmedbasić