Resistance to cross-cultural psychosocial efforts in disaster and trauma: Recommendations for ethnomedical competence

Australasian Journal of Disaster and Trauma Studies

Volumn 2006, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Shah, Siddharth Ashvin ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative treatments; Cross cultural trauma recovery; Disaster relief; Psychological trauma; Psychosocial treatment; Relief work; Trans cultural treatments; Tsunami relief

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750070301     PISSN: 11744707     EISSN: 11744707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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