Compounding of premigration trauma and postmigration stress in asylum seekers

Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied

Volumn 131, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 463-470

  Sinnerbrink, Ingrid ^a   Silove, Derrick ^a   Field, Annette ^b   Steel, Zachary ^c   Manicavasagar, Vijaya ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b Asylum Seekers Center   (Australia)

^c SYDNEY SOUTH WEST AREA HEALTH SERVICE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REFUGEE; SOCIAL WELFARE; TORTURE; VIOLENCE;

ACCULTURATION; ADULT; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW SOUTH WALES; REFUGEES; SOCIAL WELFARE; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TORTURE; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0346614652     PISSN: 00223980     EISSN: 19401019     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00223989709603533     Document Type: Article

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