A guide to the forensic assessment of race-based traumatic stress reactions

Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 28-40

  Carter, Robert T ^a   Forsyth, Jessica M ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; EMOTION; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MENTAL HEALTH; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; RACISM; REVIEW; STRESS; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; EMPLOYMENT; EXPERT WITNESS; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; NOTE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; EMPLOYMENT; EXPERT TESTIMONY; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMANS; MALE; PREJUDICE; STRESS DISORDERS, TRAUMATIC; UNITED STATES;

EID: 66149110797     PISSN: 10936793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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