Mental health and violence: WPA Cairo declaration - International perspectives for intervention

International Review of Psychiatry

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 193-200

  Okasha, A ^a,b,c  

^a AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b Immediate Past President WPA   (Egypt)

^c NONE   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CHILD; CONFLICT; CRIME; DEATH; DEPRESSION; DESTRUCTION; DISABLED PERSON; FAMILY COUNSELING; FEAR; FEMALE; HEAD; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HOME; HOPELESSNESS; MENTAL HEALTH; MORBIDITY; MOTHER; PANIC; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRIST; RAPE; RELIGION; REVIEW; RISK; SEXUAL ABUSE; SYMPTOM; VIOLENCE; VULNERABLE POPULATION; WAR;

ADULT; FAMILY; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH; ORGANIZATIONAL OBJECTIVES; PSYCHIATRY; RELIGION; SOCIAL CHANGE; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; VIOLENCE; WAR;

EID: 34250654893     PISSN: 09540261     EISSN: 13691627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09540260701349449     Document Type: Review

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