Secondary traumatization among wives of Israeli POWs: The role of POWs' distress

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 27-33

  Dekel, Rachel ^a   Solomon, Zahava ^b  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Marital adjustment; POWs; PTSD; Secondary traumatization; Wives

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGGRESSION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISRAEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARRIAGE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; SELF DISCLOSURE; SELF REPORT; SPOUSE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VETERAN; WAR;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PRISONERS; SELF DISCLOSURE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPOUSE ABUSE; SPOUSES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; WAR;

EID: 33644537424     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-005-0002-6     Document Type: Article

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