title: The importance of group psychotherapy in the rehabilitation of war survivors with psychological consequences.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To demonstrate the importance of group psychotherapy in the rehabilitation of war survivors with psychological consequences.
  
  
  METHODS
  The study involved 12 subjects (7 male and 5 female), with war psychological consequences. Assessment instrument used in this study was Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI-53), containing 53 items divided in 9 subscales. Questionnaire ranging from 0 to 4 was used for assessing psychological symptoms. The subjects were assessed prior to the treatment, with six months follow-up. All subjects were treated with group psychotherapy. Sessions were organized weekly and lasted for one and half hour. Group was lead by two co-therapists, one male and one female. Working technique was supportive-expressive psychotherapy.
  
  
  RESULTS
  After six months of psychotherapy treatment of the group, BSI -53 questionnaire results show reduction in all psychopathological symptoms (p < 0.05).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Group psychotherapy can be recommended as a technique in the psychotherapy of war related psychological consequences.
authors.affiliation: Clinic of Psychiatry, Clinical Center of University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. almabravomehmedbasic@bih.net.ba
authors.forename: Alma
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bravo-Mehmedbasic
authors.forename: Abdulah
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kucukalic
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D011615:Psychotherapy, Group; D017741:Survivors / Q000523:psychology*; D014857:Warfare