Mental health issues of peacekeeping workers

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 483-491

  Shigemura, Jun ^a   Nomura, Soichiro ^a  

^a NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Crisis intervention; Military psychiatry; Post traumatic stress disorder; United Nations; War neurosis

Indexed keywords

AMBIGUITY; BEHAVIOR; BOREDOM; CRISIS INTERVENTION; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL STRESS; MILITARY MEDICINE; ORGANIZATION; PHYSICAL DISEASE; POLITICS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; SOCIOLOGY; SOLDIER; THREAT; UNITED NATIONS; WAR; WORKER;

CRISIS INTERVENTION; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH; MILITARY PERSONNEL; NEUROTIC DISORDERS; POLITICS; PREVALENCE; SOCIAL CONDITIONS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; UNITED NATIONS; WAR;

EID: 0036792697     PISSN: 13231316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1819.2002.01043.x     Document Type: Review

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