Trauma and posttraumatic reactions in German development aid workers: Prevalences and relationship to social acknowledgement

International Journal of Social Psychiatry

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 91-100

  Jones, Bronwyn ^a   Müller, Julia ^b   Maercker, Andreas ^c  

^a Australian Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOTRAUMA; QUESTIONNAIRE; RAPE; RATING SCALE; SAMPLE; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL WORKER; SURVIVAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THREAT; VICTIM;

ADULT; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESCUE WORK; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 33645530742     PISSN: 00207640     EISSN: 17412854     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0020764006061248     Document Type: Article

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