PSYCH 217 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Cambodian Genocide, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Startle Response
16 Apr 2016
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Physical and civil infrastructure may be damaged. People may have a desire for retaliaion. Even in socieies where peace has been achieved there may be . People who survive war and genocides face long-term mental health consequences. Prone to anxiety, startle response, depression, ruminaion and intrusive thoughts. People can experience ptsd from many kinds of events. Certain kinds of cogniive-behavioral therapies and medicaion. Bit, harder to cope with mass trauma. Example: survivors of cambodian genocide now residing in the us. Cambodian study) examined survivors of cambodian genocide who now reside in the u. s. Overlow of war in vietnam, result was civil war in cambodia. Approximately 2 million people executed or starved to death: among survivors, high rates of major depression (51%) and ptsd (62%) Ptsd rate strongly linked to degree of trauma experienced during genocide: among those who escaped to thailand and then to the u. s. , there were extremely high rates of trauma.
