Psychological preparedness for trauma as a protective factor in survivors of torture

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1421-1433

  Basoglu M ^a   Mineka, S ^b   Paker, M ^b   Aker, T ^b   Livanou, M ^b   Gok S ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; POLITICS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; SURVIVAL; TORTURE; VARIANCE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; POLITICS; PREVALENCE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVIVORS; TORTURE; TURKEY;

EID: 1842301781     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291797005679     Document Type: Article

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