A case study: How a disaster mental health volunteer provided spiritually, culturally, and historically sensitive trauma training to teacher-counselors and other mental health professionals in Sri Lanka, 4 weeks after the tsunami

Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 316-325

  Jordan, Karin ^a  

^a GEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cultural sensitivity; Disaster mental health; Spiritual sensitivity; Sri Lanka; Trauma training; Tsunami

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750363371     PISSN: 14743310     EISSN: 14743329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brief-treatment/mhl012     Document Type: Article

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