Género y evaluación de experiencias traumáticas en víctimas de violencia política

[EN] Assessing traumatic experiences experienced by victims of political violence has drawn the attention of the international scientific community in order to create appropriate models of intervention. The Inventory of Traumatic Experiences Questionnaire to assess traumatization Harvard refugees and created by Richard Mollica and his research team in 1992, was applied to 124 American, coming from different countries who were treated at the Treatment Center for Torture Victims School of Medicine, University of Health Sciences at Oregon (Torture Treatment Center at Oregon Health and Science University). The objectives of this study were to explore gender differences attributable to the traumatic experiences suffered by Latin American victims of political violence and to check the type of clinical diagnosis associated with these experiences. The results of the Traumatic Experiences Inventory were compared with clinical diagnosis as well as the gender of the clinical group which conducted the study. The results show that both men and women who have been exposed to traumatic experiences, there is a high incidence of posttraumatic stress disorder, there were no gender differences attributable to scale performance assessment of traumatic experiences in the total count the questionnaire but to make an item by item analysis. Results are discussed considering the theoretical model chosen and identifies the theoretical and clinical implications of the study.

Author

• Vargas Durán, Ruth Elizabeth

• Tesis y disertaciones académicas
• Universidad de Salamanca (España)
• Academic Dissertations
• Violencia política
• Political violence
• Estrés postraumático
• Post-traumatic stress disorder
• Psicología
• Psychology

Identifier

hdl:10366/76593

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:gredos.usal.es:10366/76593