Associations between self and other representations and posttraumatic adjustment among political prisoners

Anxiety, Stress and Coping

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 421-440

  Salo, Jari ^a   Punamäki, Raija Leena ^a   Qouta, Samir ^b  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b Gaza Community Mental Health Programme   (Palestine)

Author keywords

Posttraumatic adjustment; Self and other representations; Trauma

Indexed keywords

EID: 11344281818     PISSN: 10615806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1061580031000075814     Document Type: Article

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