Video testimony of long-term hospitalized psychiatrically ill holocaust survivors

American Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 162, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2287-2294

  Strous, Rael D ^a   Weiss, Mordechai ^b   Felsen, Irit ^b   Finkel, Boris ^b   Melamed, Yuval ^b   Bleich, Avraham ^b   Kotler, Moshe ^b   Laub, Dori ^b  

^a BEER YAAKOV MENTAL HEALTH CENTER   (Israel)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL GLOBAL IMPRESSION SCALE; CLINICIAN ADMINISTERED POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER SCALE; CRIME; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; ISRAEL; MALE; MENTAL HOSPITAL; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE SYNDROME SCALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; RATING SCALE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW FOR DISORDERS OF EXTREME STRESS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; WITNESS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HOLOCAUST; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; ISRAEL; LENGTH OF STAY; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; LONG-TERM CARE; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOTHERAPY, BRIEF; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVIVORS; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 28444494024     PISSN: 0002953X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.162.12.2287     Document Type: Article

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