Time does not heal all wounds: Quality of life and psychological distress of people who survived the Holocaust as children 55 years later

Journal of Traumatic Stress

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 295-299

  Amir, Marianne ^a   Lev Wiesel, Rachel ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Holocaust child survivors; PTSD; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGER; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOMATIZATION; WAR;

AGED; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOLOCAUST; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SURVIVORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0037566261     PISSN: 08949867     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023756326443     Document Type: Article

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