Well-Being and Trauma in Adults Displaced by Political Violence
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Keywords

Social Welfare
Displaced by the Violence – Mental Health
Psychological Phenomena and Processes

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Well-Being and Trauma in Adults Displaced by Political Violence. (2009). Universitas Psychologica, 8(2), 455-470. https://revistas.javeriana.edu.co/index.php/revPsycho/article/view/489
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Abstract

This study studied Subjective and Objective Psychological Well-being, and Fatalism, Trauma and Irrational Posttraumatic Cognitions, in adults displaced by socio-political violence, living in Barranquilla, Colombia. Outcomes suggest that people who have been victims of forced displacement exhibit undeniable symptoms of psychosocial trauma, and that they also have elements associated to Mental Health
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