Transmission of response to trauma? Second-generation holocaust survivors' reaction to cancer

American Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 157, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 904-910

  Baider, Lea ^a   Peretz, Tamar ^b   Hadani, Pnina Ever ^b   Perry, Shlomit ^b   Avramov, Rita ^b   Kaplan De Nour, Atara ^b  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; COPING BEHAVIOR; CRIME; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MENTAL HEALTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHILD OF IMPAIRED PARENTS; FEMALE; HOLOCAUST; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MARITAL STATUS; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVORS;

EID: 0034047763     PISSN: 0002953X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.157.6.904     Document Type: Article

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