Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in children and adolescents occurs when a child is exposed to one or more events that are unexpected, uncontrollable, life-threatening, and likely to cause serious harm or injury to himself/herself or someone significantly important to the child. In response, th...e child experiences fear, hopelessness, or horror and responds with a characteristic set of physiological and psychological reactions, which perpetuates the overwhelming and confusing feelings. Symptoms are characterized into three groups: persistent, intrusive re-experiencing of traumatic recollections; avoidance of reminders/numbing; and increased arousal.
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Recommended actions and international and national level
Promoting People's Health to Enhance Social-economic Development
Reprinted from Australian Family Physician Vol. 39, No. 10, october 2010
Recommended actions at international and national levels
Second Generation, WHO Country Cooperation Strategy, 2010–2015, Namibia
Towards Malaria Elimination