Emergency intervention for acute traumatic stress

Psychiatric Services

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 739-740

  Osterman, Janet E ^a   Chemtob, Claude M ^b  

^a BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b National Center for PTSD   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPING BEHAVIOR; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; PATIENT COUNSELING; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; SHORT SURVEY; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 0033036446     PISSN: 10752730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/ps.50.6.739     Document Type: Short Survey

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