The capacity of mental health services to recognize symptoms of PTSD in children and adolescents
The goal: to investigate the ability of specialists from mental hospital, to recognize PTSD.Material and methods: 55 specialists were questioned (the mean age 43,3 years, 16 men, 39 women).The group consisted of 13 psychotherapist, 11 medical psychologists, 31 psychiatrists. 26 specialists had training in PTSD before this investigation.The investigation was carried out with the help of the semi-structured inquirer.The ability to diagnose PTSD was identified by number of correct answers. All findings characterized together with sociodemographic and professional features took part in сorrelation analysis.The results: the level of PTSD identification among children was found low 65,4%.The correlaion between the correct identification PTSD and sociodemographic features wasnt found (p>0,05). The results of correlation analysis showed that psychiatrists more rarely diagnosed PTSD among children (VCramer=0,485, р<0,05) than psychologists did (VCramer =0,363, р<0,05).We found out the strong and important positive correlation between previous PTSD training and correct PTSD diagnostics among children (VCramer =0,614, р<0,05)..