Recurrent trauma: Holocaust survivors cope with aging and cancer

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 396-402

  Hantman, Shira ^a   Solomon, Zahava ^b  

^a TEL HAI COLLEGE   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Aging; Cancer; Coping; Holocaust; Post traumatic stress disorder

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CANCER; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; CRIME; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; PSYCHOSOCIAL ADJUSTMENT TO ILLNESS SCALE; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SURVIVOR; SYMPTOM CHECKLIST 90; VICTIM;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; AGING; FEMALE; HOLOCAUST; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; PSYCHOLOGY; RECURRENCE; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVIVORS;

EID: 34248644325     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-007-0177-0     Document Type: Article

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