Citation

Lončar M, Plašć ID, Skorušek-Blažičko S, Marinković-Danilović Z, Kraljević K, Benić N, Božanja F. Socijalna Psihijatrija 2014; 42(2): 75-79.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, Clinic for Psychiatry, University Hospital Centre Zagreb and School of Medicine)

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Abstract

It is necessary to provide support and psychosocial assistance to all war participants and their families and to include these people in everyday life to prevent complex psychological consequences. The Ministry of Veterans' Affairs founded the National Center for Psychotrauma for this purpose. The basic task of the Center is to improve clinical and psychosocial care for Croatian Homeland War veterans through scientific researches and permanent education, which should result in improved diagnosis and treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other allied disorders related to war trauma. Target groups are war participants and victims at the national level, members of their families, civilian victims of war, victims of sexual abuse and rape, participants of World War II, members of their families, those afflicted in UN, NATO and EU peacekeeping missions, and their families. The Center consists of clinical department with day hospital, which provides psychiatric treatment with special attention to prevention of suicide among Croatian Homeland War veterans through involvement in therapeutic treatments, and Center for Scientific Research Projects, established as a center of excellence for research, education, prevention, understanding and treatment of PTSD. The National Center for Psychotrauma will encourage quality of life improvement in the target groups as well as in the population at large.

Language: hr

Keywords

human; suicide; sexual abuse; Croatia; quality of life; Post-traumatic stress disorder; war; medical education; veteran; posttraumatic stress disorder; review; victim; clinical research; rape; psychotrauma; psychosocial care; mental health center; psychiatric treatment; family counseling; preventive health service; day hospital; Croatian Homeland War veterans; Ministry of Veterans' Affairs; National Center for Psychotrauma; Psychotrauma