ABSTRACT
This latter point is crucially important when considering working with people for whom experiences in adult life have had a traumatising effect, or for whom these experiences have occurred at a time after they have established their struc ture of self, and within this, their self-concept. However, we should not lose sight of the fact that many, many children and young people are psychologically affected by the trauma of warfare, with the likelihood that many children will develop dissociative and fragile states (Warner, 2000) in response, severely affecting the development of their structure of self.
