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The societies struck by the so-called Balkan war in the early 1990s are still suffering from the consequences of the war. Many people of the postwar population are still traumatized by the war events. A total 164 patients with posttraumatic stress disorder or with enduring personality change after catastrophic experience (ICD10 F43.1 or ICD10 F62.0) who participated in a survey using the SpNQ at three psychiatry and psychotherapy wards of university clinics in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia expressed strong spiritual needs in all the scales of the SpNQ and in Family Support. In order to foster posttraumatic growth, treatment in psychiatry and psychotherapy ought to take seriously these needs of the patients—also as resources for coping more adequately with their burdens.
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We are grateful to all the participants of our survey and to the medical staff of the participating wards for psychiatry and psychotherapy of the university clinics of Tuzla, Sarajevo and Rijeka for their effective and generous support without which it would not have been possible to conduct this survey.
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Glavas, A., Baumann, K. (2021). Spiritual Needs in Postwar Population Posttrauma Patients in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. In: Büssing, A. (eds) Spiritual Needs in Research and Practice. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70139-0_23
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