Organizing the mental health response to human-caused community disasters with reference to the Oklahoma City bombing

Psychiatric Annals

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 109-113

  Pfefferbaum, Betty ^a   Flynn, Brian W ^b   Brandt Jr , Edward N ^c   Lensgraf, S Jay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Div Prog Devmt Spec P   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

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EID: 0033479246     PISSN: 00485713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/0048-5713-19990201-09     Document Type: Article

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