No plans survive first contact with the enemy: Flexibility and improvisation in disaster mental health

Psychiatry

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 361-365

  Jones, Norman ^a   Greenberg, Neil ^a   Wessely, Simon ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISASTER; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; NOTE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PSYCHOEDUCATION; PSYCHOTRAUMA;

EID: 38149137131     PISSN: 00332747     EISSN: 1943281X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/psyc.2007.70.4.361     Document Type: Note

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