Police-based early detection of persistent Type A trauma symptomatology in crime victims: The validity of rapid, objective risk assessment

International Journal of Law and Psychiatry

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 191-205

  Winkel, Frans Willem ^a   Wohlfarth, Tamar ^a   Blaauw, Eric ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRIME; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLICE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; RATING SCALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VALIDATION PROCESS; VICTIM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CRIME VICTIMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; POLICE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 0037366075     PISSN: 01602527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0160-2527(02)00207-8     Document Type: Article

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