Describing traumatic responses and distress of community residents directly and indirectly exposed to an aircraft crash

Psychiatry (New York)

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 125-137

  Chung, Man Cheung ^a   Easthope, Yvette ^b   Eaton, Beverley ^b   McHugh, Catherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; SOMATIZATION; STRESS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ACCIDENTS, AVIATION; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COUNSELING; DISASTERS; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 0344848765     PISSN: 00332747     EISSN: 1943281X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/00332747.1999.11024861     Document Type: Article

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