Center for Psychotrauma, Psychiatric Clinic,
University of Rijeka, Croatia

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Center for psychotrauma Psychiatric Clinic Medical School University of Rijeka Croatia   Centar za psihotraumu Klinika za psihijatriju KBC Medicinski fakultet Sveučilište u Rijeci Hrvatska   Phone  (385 51)  658-516 / 658-339

Principal Investigator

Tanja Franciskovic
Email tanja.franciskovic@ri.tel.hr

The Center for Psychotrauma was founded to work with psychotraumatised people. At first, the main focus was on war victims (displaced people, refugees, war veterans, torture victims), but today we spread our activities on a broad field of war and civil psychotrauma.

It is financed through work with patients as a part of a health system, through Medical School as a educational place for students, residents, etc., through Ministry of Science, several research projects in the field of psychotrauma and by a Ministry of Veterans Affairs as part of a network of institutions for psychosocial help to war veterans.

We started in 1991 within Psychiatric Clinic at the very beginning of war in Croatia, working with numerous war victims that started to come in Rijeka region from the parts of Croatia inflicted in war. Gradually we developed Department for PTSD, still within Psychiatric Clinic and in 1997. We have got a separate rooms for our Center by donations of Clinical Centre, County and City Government. All equipment was donated by some domestic or foreign donors. Center functions relatively independently but is incorporated in official institutions on the principle of shared interest.

Our Centre is regional psychotrauma center and from 2000 is Croatian Referent Center for Psychotrauma and is collaborating with many institution in Croatia and abroad that are working in the same field.

We have 13 to 17 employees of various educational background ( 3 psychiatrists, 5 psychologists, pedagogue, social worker, lawyer, 3 nurses and various number of residents and volunteers).

Since 1997 to Center for Psychotrauma Rijeka refereed more than 6000 persons seeking help for psychotrauma related problems, most of them war veterans and torture victims.

Principal Investigator is Tanja Franciskovic, PhD, a psychiatrist and psychotherapist (specialised in-group analysis). She is an expert in therapy for patients suffering from combat-related PTSD (PhD thesis) and in training and supervising professionals.

Collaborator on the project is Vlatka Jurcan, psychologist.

Centar za psihotraumu, Klinika za psihijatriju,
Sveučilište u Rijeci, Hrvatska

Centar za psihotraumu osnovan je radi pružanja psihološke pomoći psihotraumatiziranima. U početku naglasak je bio na žrtve rata (prognanici, izbjeglice, veterani, žrtve torture) no danas se sve više bavimo širokim područjem posljedica psihotraumatizacije kako uzrokovane ratom tako i civilnom traumom.

Centar je uključen u sustav zdravstevne zaštite kroz rad sa pacijentima, služi kao edukacijska baza Medicinskog fakulteta u Rijeci, sjedište je nekoliko istraživačkih projekata Ministrastva znanosti, a umrežen je i u mrežu institucija za pružanje psihosocijalne pomoći veteranima.

Naše aktivnosti započele su 1991 na samom početku rata u Hrvatskoj, u sklopu Psihiatrijske Klinike KBC Rijeka radom sa brojnim žrtvama rata koje su počele pristizati u Rijeku iz raznih djelova Hrvatske zahvaćenih ratom. Postepeno formiran je Odjel unutar Psihijatrijske Klinike, a 1997 Centar je preselio u zasebni prostor opremljen uz pomoć grada Rijeke i brojnih domaćih i stanih donatora. Centar je dio Klinike za psihijatriju a sa  raznim institucijama surađuje u okviru zajedničkih projekata.

Naš Centar je danas regionalni psihotrauma centar, a od 2000 god. imenovan je referentnim centrom za područje psihotraume za Hrvatsku.

U centru radi  multidisciplinarni tim stručnjaka čiji broj varira od 13 do 17 (3 psihijatra, 6 psihologa, pedagog, socijalni radnik, pravnik, medicinske sestre, pecijalizanti psihijatrije i volonteri).

Od 1997  u centru za psihotraumu zbog psihičkih problema nakon psihotraumatizacije,  pomoć je potražilo oko 6000 osoba,najčešće veterana i žrtava torture.

Glavni istraživač je Doc.Dr.sc.Tanja Frančiškvić, psihijatar i psihoterapeut, grupni analitičar. Glavno područje interesa su posttraumatski poremećaji uzrokovani borbom ( iz tog su područja i teme klasifikacijskih radova), kao i trening i supervizija profesionalaca na području mentalnog zdravlja.

Suradnik na projektu je prof.Vlatka Jurcan, psiholog.