Abstract: Background: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is the highest common psychological disorder in adolescents. PTSD is caused when experienced a stressful event or crisis, such as warfare, sexual assault, child abuse, car accidents, or other threats on a person's life. Either experiencing it or witnessing it, each adolescence experiences symptoms in a different way. These symptoms include mainly 4 aspects, re-experiencing symptoms, avoiding situations, negative changes in beliefs and feelings, and feeling keyed up (hyper arousal). The impact appears mainly on social and psychological life. Moreover, it can lead to other common disorders, such as anxiety and depression....
Key Words: PTSD, Psychosocial, adolescents, trauma
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