Surviving the war zone experience: Preventing psychiatric casualties

Military Medicine

Volumn 162, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 283-287

  Dobson, Matthew ^a,b   Marshall, Richard P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b Department of Defence   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MILITARY MEDICINE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHIATRY; STRESS; WAR;

EID: 0030983765     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/milmed/162.4.283     Document Type: Article

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