Difficulties and Coping Strategies of Sudanese Refugees: A Qualitative Approach

Transcultural Psychiatry

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 489-512

  Khawaja, Nigar G ^a   White, Katherine M ^a   Schweitzer, Robert ^a   Greenslade, Jaimi ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

difficulties and coping; refugees

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; EMOTIONAL STABILITY; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; LIFESPAN; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIGRATION; PATIENT COUNSELING; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOTRAUMA; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REFUGEE; RELIGION; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SUDAN;

ACCULTURATION; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREJUDICE; QUEENSLAND; REFUGEES; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SUDAN; VIOLENCE;

EID: 52349106069     PISSN: 13634615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1363461508094678     Document Type: Article

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