Do South African Former Detainees Experience Post-Traumatic Stress? Circumventing the Demand Characteristics of Psychological Assessment

Transcultural Psychiatry

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 323-336

  Kagee, Ashraf ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

political detainees; post traumatic stress disorder

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MENTAL STRESS; PHYSICAL STRESS; POLITICS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRISONER; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOUTH AFRICA; SURVIVAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TORTURE; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

ADULT; AGED; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLITICS; PREJUDICE; PRISONERS; SOUTH AFRICA; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TORTURE;

EID: 5744237831     PISSN: 13634615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1363461504045643     Document Type: Article

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