FAMILY SURVIVED THE SINKING OF "COSTA CONCORDIA"

The Italian cruise ship “Costa Concordia” partially sank on the night of 13 January 2012 after hitting a reef off the Italian coast and running aground at Isola del Giglio, Tyrrhenian Sea, requiring the evacuation of the 4, 252 people on board. Twenty-five people are known to be dead ; 64 others were injured (at least two seriously) and 7 are missing. Among the passengers, a Croatian family ; HR-S, her husband DR, and their nine-year old daughter DR-S survived the disaster of the ship. Acute stress disorder (ASD) describe acute stress reactions (ASRs) that occur in the initial month after exposure to a traumatic event and before the possibility of diagnosing posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and identify trauma survivors in the acute phase who are high risk for PTSD. At the Psychiatric Outpatient Clinic of Split University Hospital Center the couple received psychiatric help.