Working with victims of persecution: Lessons from Holocaust survivors

Social Work

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 350-360

  Levine, Joanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Holocaust; Persecution; Psychological trauma; Refugees

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; CHILD; CRIME; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MIGRATION; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; SOCIAL WORK; STATISTICS; SURVIVOR; UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD OF IMPAIRED PARENTS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; HOLOCAUST; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; SOCIAL WORK, PSYCHIATRIC; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVIVORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0035490353     PISSN: 00378046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sw/46.4.350     Document Type: Article

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