Conflict-Orphaned Children and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in Nigeria's Fourth-Republic
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2014
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Centre for Peace and Strategic Studies, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria
Abstract
As children orphaned are displaced by violence conflicts and living outside their homes, this research probes for the presence and extent of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in each of these (18) children against the background of their traumatic experiences of losing their parents to sectarian violence and witnessing their slaughtering in some in two instances. Also, the PTSD test revealed that 66.7% of them have adopted avoidance of any reminder of the experience as a coping mechanism, while 55.6% of them still suffer from functional impairment...
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Conflict-Orphaned, Displaced, Children, Nigeria & Post-Traumatic Stress disorder (PTSD)