Editorial - Victim services in the National Health Service (NHS): Combining treatment with violence prevention

Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 75-81

  Shepherd, Jonathan ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL ABUSE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CRIMINAL JUSTICE; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; EDITORIAL; EMERGENCY WARD; LAW; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MENTAL STRESS; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; POLICE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIMARY PREVENTION; REHABILITATION CENTER; RISK FACTOR; SAFETY; SECONDARY PREVENTION; UNEMPLOYMENT; VICTIM; VIOLENCE; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL JUSTICE; UNITED KINGDOM;

CRIME VICTIMS; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; SOCIAL JUSTICE; STATE MEDICINE; VIOLENCE;

EID: 24044436530     PISSN: 09579664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cbm.38     Document Type: Editorial

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