Long-Term effects of political violence: Narrative inquiry across a 20-year period

Qualitative Health Research

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1312-1322

  Dillenburger, Karola ^a   Fargas, Montserrat ^a   Akhonzada, Rym ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coping and adaptation; Narrative inquiry; Northern Ireland; Trauma; Violence

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; COPING BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; IRELAND; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; NARRATIVE; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; POLITICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOTRAUMA; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL SUPPORT; VICTIM; VIOLENCE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; NORTHERN IRELAND; POLITICS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VIOLENCE;

EID: 52349094702     PISSN: 10497323     EISSN: 15527557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049732308322487     Document Type: Article

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