Research Department

IAN Research Department conducts various scientific research projects through comprehensive analysis of the data collected through daily work with traumatised clients and inter-disciplinary studies within consortium of respectable institutions in SCG and abroad.

Since the early beginning of IAN activities all programs and activities have been followed by high standardised assessment and research. Comprehensive data on the effects of war related trauma and consequences on mental health have been collected. Data bases contain valuable information for more than 11000 war affected persons.

Since 2003 IAN has been conducting separate international research projects supported by the European Commission FP5 and FP6

Current active research projects are:

• STOP - Treatment seeking and treatment outcomes in people suffering from PTSD following war and migration in the Balkans
• PBPTSD - Psychobiology of Posttraumatic Stress Disorders

IAN  Sector for Research  will continue with efforts to establish and promote good practice in psychological diagnostic and measurement (including evaluation of various psycho-social and educational interventions and programs), in accordance with the highest methodological and ethical standards aiming to get knowledge relevant for the improvement of mental health, quality of life and psychological growth, strengthen capacities for the adjustment to the rapidly changing society, especially of vulnerable groups such as victims of war-related trauma or torture.

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