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- Title
Individual Change After Genocide in Bosnian Survivors of “Ethnic Cleansing”: Assessing Personality Dysfunction.
- Authors
Weine, Stevan M.; Becker, Daniel E.; Vojvoda, Dolores; Hodzic, Emir; Sawyer, Marie; Hyman, Leslie; Laub, Don; McGlashan, Thomas H.
- Abstract
The authors used the SCID-DES (disorders of extreme stress) instrument to assess for personality change in Bosnian survivors of “ethnic cleansing.” Twenty four refugees underwent systematic, trauma-focused, research assessments, including the SCID-DES interview. Overall, this group of Bosnian survivors had been severely traumatized as a result of the Serbian nationalists' genocide. However, no subject met diagnostic criteria for DES. The SCID-DES yields far lower rates of trauma-related personality change in Bosnian survivors of genocide than in adult survivors of prolonged early life traumas. Therefore, the DES construct may have better application to prolonged, interpersonal, early life traumas than to the prolonged, communal traumas of genocide.
- Subjects
ETHNIC cleansing; CRIMES against humanity; POST-traumatic stress disorder; ANXIETY; PERSONALITY change; REFUGEES
- Publication
Journal of Traumatic Stress, 1998, Vol 11, Issue 1, p147
- ISSN
0894-9867
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1023/A:1024469418811