Effect of political imprisonment and trauma history on recent Tibetan refugees in India

Journal of Traumatic Stress

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 369-375

  Crescenzi, Antonella ^a   Ketzer, Eva ^a   Van Ommeren, Mark ^b   Phuntsok, Kalsang ^a   Komproe, Ivan ^b   De Jong, Joop T V M ^b  

^a Tibetan Transcultural Psychosocial Organization Mental Health Program   (India)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Imprisonment; India; Refugees; Tibet; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY NEUROSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIA; INJURY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POLITICS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRISONER; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; PSYCHOTRAUMA; QUESTIONNAIRE; REFUGEE; TORTURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLITICS; PRISONERS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFUGEES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TIBET;

EID: 0036790479     PISSN: 08949867     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020129107279     Document Type: Article

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