Utilization of mental health treatment and other services by battered women in shelters

Psychiatric Services

Volumn 58, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1595-1597

  Johnson, Dawn M ^a   Zlotnick, Caron ^b  

^a SUMMA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BATTERED WOMAN; CRIMINAL JUSTICE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENT; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST;

EID: 38049017634     PISSN: 10752730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/ps.2007.58.12.1595     Document Type: Article

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