Psychiatric aspects of detention: Illustrative case studies

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 495-500

  Koopowitz, Leslie F ^a   Abhary, Sotoodeh ^b  

^a ROYAL ADELAIDE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Asylum seekers; Political detainees; Psychiatric illness; Refugees

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; CELECOXIB; CODEINE; IBUPROFEN; PARACETAMOL;

ADULT; AUSTRALIA; BACKACHE; CASE REPORT; CASE STUDY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DEPRESSION; DETENTION; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL SCHOOL; PHYSICIAN; PHYSIOTHERAPY; POLITICAL SYSTEM; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHIATRIC DEPARTMENT; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RACE DIFFERENCE; REFUGEE; REVIEW; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOUTH AFRICA; TORTURE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADULT; ANXIETY; AUSTRALIA; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLITICS; PRISONERS; PRISONS; RELIGION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 4344582222     PISSN: 00048674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1614.2004.01402.x     Document Type: Review

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