Individual and group treatment and self and other representations predicting posttraumatic recovery among former political prisoners

Traumatology

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 45-61

  Salo, Jari ^a   Punamäki, Raija Leena ^a   Qouta, Samir ^b   El Sarraj, Eyad ^b  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b Gaza Community Mental Health Programme   (Palestine)

Author keywords

Individual and group treatment; Posttraumatic growth; Posttraumatic symptoms; Self and other representations; Trauma

Indexed keywords

EID: 46249132879     PISSN: 15347656     EISSN: 10859373     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1534765608319079     Document Type: Article

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