Re-evaluating the Link between Disasters and Psychopathology

Disasters and Mental Health

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 65-80

  Yehuda, Rachel ^a   Bierer, Linda M ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute stress disorder (ASD); Cognitive behavioral stress management techniques; Concept of biological risk; Enhanced negative feedback inhibition; Peri traumatic panic; Predisposing biology of PTSD; PTSD diagnosis; Trauma exposure

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547422583     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/047002125X.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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