Classification system of stress-associated and post-traumatic stress disorders and its justification

Danyk Yuriy, Druz Oleg, Chernenko Inna. Classification system of stress-associated and post-traumatic stress disorders and its justification. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2017;7(6):1265-1279. eISSN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2550586 http://ojs.ukw.edu.pl/index.php/johs/article/view/6531 The journal has had 7 points in Ministry of Science and Higher Education parametric evaluation. Part B item 1223 (26.01.2017). 1223 Journal of Education, Health and Sport eISSN 2391-8306 7 © The Author 2017; This article is published with open access at Licensee Open Journal Systems of Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper. Received: 03.06.2017. Revised: 20.06.2017. Accepted: 30.06.2017. CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM OF STRESS-ASSOCIATED AND POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDERS AND ITS JUSTIFICATION Yuriy Danyk, Oleg Druz, Inna Chernenko S. P. Koroliov Zhytomir Military Institute; National Military-Medical Clinical Centre “The Main Military Clinical Hospital”, Ukraine Abstract The objective: to form classification of stress- associative and post-traumatic stress disorders on the base of analysis of their existing theoretical and empirical studies. Through the use of a content analysis of theoretical and empirical studies, the features of the formation and development of various manifestations of post-traumatic personality stress disorders and combat mental trauma are considered. A holistic classification of post-traumatic stress disorders is proposed, depending on: the variant and stage of development, the type of course, clinical or psychological manifestations, the time of the course, the results and degrees of severity. It has been established that the development of post-traumatic stress disorders affects: the duration of a crisis situation, terrain, primorbid, history of life, the type of individual reaction to the crisis situation itself, the motivation of which the soldier consciously (or unconsciously) goes to war, micro and macrosocium, information effects, the influence of the media, individual experience gained, both practical and theoretical, social and psychological support, the influence of chemical agents (drugs, chemical ix). The final stage of the development of post-traumatic stress disorders may be the formation of post-traumatic personality disorder, as its extreme manifestation. Key words: post-traumatic stress disorders, combat psychic trauma, combat trauma, stress, psychotrauma, combat actions, stress-associative factors, disadaptation, military personnel, combatants