Loss of identity in disaster: How do you say goodbye to home?

Perspectives in Psychiatric Care

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 41-46

  Dugan, Bridget ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Hurricane Katrina; Loss of identity and culture; Relocation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURAL FACTOR; DISASTER; DISASTER PLANNING; ETHNOLOGY; FEAR; GRIEF; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; IDENTITY; MENTAL HEALTH; NURSING STUDENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REFUGEE; REVIEW; SELF CONCEPT; SURVIVOR; UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; DISASTER PLANNING; FEAR; GRIEF; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; IDENTITY CRISIS; LOUISIANA; MENTAL HEALTH; NATURAL DISASTERS; REFUGEES; SELF CONCEPT; STUDENTS, NURSING; SURVIVORS; TEXAS;

EID: 33846500877     PISSN: 00315990     EISSN: 17446163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-6163.2007.00105.x     Document Type: Review

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