Mass Violence and Early Intervention: Best Practice Guidelines

Primary Psychiatry

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 43-48

  Ritchie, Elspeth Cameron ^a,b  

^a Off Assistant Sec Def Hlth Aff   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY CARE; DISASTER; EARLY TREATMENT; EDUCATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FIRST AID; FOLLOW UP; FOOD; GUNSHOT INJURY; HOME; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MANDATORY DEBRIEFING; MANDATORY PROGRAM; MASS VIOLENCE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REMISSION; REVIEW; SAFETY; SCHOOL; STRESS; SURVIVAL; TERRORISM; TRAINING; TREATMENT PLANNING; VIOLENCE; WORKPLACE;

EID: 1842454664     PISSN: 10826319     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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