Posttraumatic and acute stress responses in hostages held by suicide terrorists in the takeover of a moscow theater

Traumatology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 3-21

  Speckhard, Anne ^a,b,c   Tarabrina, Nadejda ^d   Krasnov, Valery ^e   Mufel, Natalia ^f  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Vesalius College   (Belgium)

^c Traumatic Stress Disorder Laboratory Institute of Psychology Russian Academy of Sciences ^*  (Belgium)

^d INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^e RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^f BELARUSIAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (Belarus)

Author keywords

Acute stress; Dissociation; Grief; Hostage; Hostage taking; Impact of events scale; Posttraumatic stress; Suicide terrorism

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746656367     PISSN: 15347656     EISSN: 10859373     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/153476560501100102     Document Type: Article

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