The current status of psychological debriefing

BMJ

Volumn 321, Issue 7268, 2000, Pages 1032-1033

  Kenardy, Justin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL; CONVALESCENCE; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EDITORIAL; EMOTION; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT INFORMATION; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENT; STRESS; CRISIS INTERVENTION; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; PROGNOSIS; STANDARD;

CRISIS INTERVENTION; HUMANS; PROGNOSIS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 0034727198     PISSN: 09598138     EISSN: 14685833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.321.7268.1032     Document Type: Editorial

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