The study of relationships between psychological trauma and divorce

Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis of interrelation between individual traumatic experience of a person and divorce situation. Posttraumatic stress, which is a consequence of impact on the person of extreme psychotraumatic factors of high intensity, affects not only the individual, but also all levels of his interaction with other people. Respectively, the need of the comprehensive analysis of consequences of traumatic experience is defined by involvement of a person in structure of interpersonal relations, including family relations, and how destructive can these consequences be for family functioning. Also this article is devoted to the analysis of strategy of the coping behavior used by people in a divorce situation. Now the mechanisms of psychological protection and coping mechanisms are considered the most important forms of adaptation processes and response of individuals to stressful situations. According to the authors, the choice of constructive strategy of coping behavior in a divorce situation by the person helps to adapt for this difficult life situation, as well as to prevent development of posttraumatic stress as a reaction to this traumatic event. Besides, the conclusion is made that studying of consequences of processes of coping with a trauma of divorce demand further discussion.