Posttraumatic growth in former Vietnam prisoners of war

Psychiatry

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 359-370

  Feder, Adriana ^a   Southwick, Steven M ^a,b   Goetz, Raymond R ^c   Wang, Yanping ^a   Alonso, Angelique ^a   Smith, Bruce W ^d   Buchholz, Katherine R ^a   Waldeck, Tracy ^e   Ameli, Rezvan ^e   Moore, Jeffrey ^f   Hain, Robert ^f   Charney, Dennis S ^a   Vythilingam, Meena ^e  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^f Robert E Mitchell Center for Prisoner of War Studies   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BATTLE INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEFENSE MECHANISM; HUMAN; MALE; OPTIMISM; PERSONAL VALUE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRISONER; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIGION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRENGTH; VETERAN; AGE; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; WAR;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; HUMANS; MALE; PRISONERS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; VIETNAM CONFLICT;

EID: 61849176973     PISSN: 00332747     EISSN: 1943281X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/psyc.2008.71.4.359     Document Type: Article

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