Page No 436-442
Asem Babina Devi, and Jitendra Kumar Kushwaha,
Manipur University, Imphal, Manipur
Children and adolescence are considered to be the phase where major developmental
milestones occur. When they are faced with certain traumatic events, their inability to
process could have lasting impact on their concept of the self and could remain imprinted.
The present paper aims to explore the impact of psychological trauma and the
development of post-traumatic reaction in children and adolescence who has been
victims of communal violence. A survey has been conducted in children and adolescence
who has been displaced and is living in relief camps due to an ethnic violence. The
Child PTSD Symptom scale for DSM-5 (CPSS-5) has been used to assess the posttraumatic
stress disorder and level of severity that they have experienced in the past 5
months after the violence has erupted. Children and adolescence who is within the age
range of 8 to 18 years have been assessed using CPSS-5. The results of the
assessment showed that the adolescence experienced mild to moderate level of trauma
and there is significant difference between the early, middle and late adolescence