Belonging and adapting: Mental health of Bosnian refugees living in the United States

Issues in Mental Health Nursing

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 809-831

  Keyes, Emily F ^a   Kane, Catherine F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EMOTION; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LEARNING; MENTAL HEALTH; NURSING; REFUGEE; SAFETY; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPEECH; THREAT; UNITED STATES;

ACCULTURATION; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; GRIEF; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; LONELINESS; MENTAL HEALTH; MID-ATLANTIC REGION; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFUGEES; SAFETY; SHAME; SOCIAL ALIENATION; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 10044257524     PISSN: 01612840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01612840490506392     Document Type: Article

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