House Demolition and Mental Health: Victims and Witnesses

Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 279-288

  Qouta, Samir ^a   Punamäki, Raija Leena ^b   El Sarraj, Eyad ^a  

^a Gaza Community Mental Health Programme   (Israel)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Mental health; Political violence; Traumatic events

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042723864     PISSN: 10530789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022995428517     Document Type: Article

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