wk 4 Consequences of stress on children's Development Boozer Y.

My dad was in the Korean War when he was in the army.  He saw a lot of his battalion get killed or hurt.  His best friend got his leg and arm blown off right in front of my dad and he was the one that saved him.  I think my dad coped with it pretty good I do not know because he never stated  how he coped with it.  But he and his best friend remained as best friends until my dads death.   The two families became very close we would go visit them and they would come and visit us.  The best friend continued to check on us and made sure we did not need any thing after my dads death.  I am sure that my dad had to get some type of  help  or had to talk to someone about the trauma  he had faced.  But again I am not sure.

     Mali is the country that I choose to find out what kind of stressor(s) that impacted the development of children.  "Post- Trauma stress disorder(PTSD) is reported to be common among refugees of Malian Refugees in Burkina Faso.  After the rebellion of Northern Mali in 2012, hundreds of thousands of Malians are sheltering in camps in Niger, Burkina Faso and Mauritania, having fled the North of Mali after it was seized by Islamist rebels in 2012 or the South or the South of Mali far fear of relaliation from other ethnic groups." (Clinical Practice and Epidemology 2013).
     The vast majority of the refugees in these refugee camps were woman, children and elderly people of the Tuareg ethnic group.  Many of the refugees had witness the violent death of a loved one or had received first hand details about the violent death of a loved one.

     "These results indicate important psychological suffering in a vulnerable population whose conditions of absolute poverty have been exacerbated by the recent war.  These conditions in this geographical area were  rarley described and have never received humanitarian aid.  Immediate steps are required to give legal and humanitarian protection to those who are forced to flee their homes and cross international borders because of the crisis.  Lon-g-term outcomes need to be explored so that appropriate interventions ar put in place on both the short and medium terms." (Clinical Practice and Epidemology 2013).

References:
Clinical Practice and Epidemology in Mental Health, (2013). Trauma- Stress or Related Disorders in the Tuareg Refugees of Camp in Burkina Faso. Clinical Practice and Epidemology in Mental Health:  Bentham Science Publishers aand BioMed Central 2013,9:189-195. doi 10210.