'We Will Never Ever Forget...': The Swissair Flight 111 Disaster and its Impact on Volunteers and Communities

Journal of Health Psychology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 245-262

  Mitchell, Terry L ^a,b   Griffin, Kara ^a   Stewart, Sherry H ^a   Loba, Pamela ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Communities; Disaster; PAR; PTSD; Volunteers

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMMUNITY; DISASTER; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; VOLUNTEER;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AVIATION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DISASTERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SAMPLING STUDIES; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; VOLUNTARY WORKERS;

EID: 1242269367     PISSN: 13591053     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1359105304040890     Document Type: Review

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