Abstract

PEDRAS, Susana  and  PEREIRA, Maria da Graça. Adverse experiences, trauma, PTSD and risk behaviors in population and war veterans. Temas psicol. [online]. 2013, vol.21, n.1, pp. 139-150. ISSN 1413-389X.  http://dx.doi.org/10.9788/TP2013.1-10.

Adverse childhood experiences, trauma exposure and PTSD are risk factors for the development of health risk behaviors (substance use, sexual risk behaviors and sedentary life style). In addition, literature has shown that there is an intergenerational transmission of parent's health risk behaviors to the offspring, emphasizing the importance of intervention with primary victims of trauma due to the risk of their involvement in health damaging behaviors and the power of parents, as roles models, in the intergenerational transmission of risk behaviors. This work presents studies in the area of traumatic stress in the general population and in war veterans taking also in consideration the research regarding the intergeneracional transmission of risk behaviors, from the family of origin to adult life.

Keywords : Health risk behaviors; adverse experiences; trauma; PTSD.

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