Working with refugees and asylum seekers

Psychiatry

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 322-324

  Turner, Stuart W ^a,b   Herlihy, Jane ^a,b  

^a Trauma Clinic ^*

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

assessment; asylum; culture; depression; phased interventions; PTSD; refugees; reports; torture; treatment

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; OLANZAPINE;

ANXIETY DISORDER; ASYLUM SEEKER; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPRESSION; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INTERPRETER SERVICE; LOW DRUG DOSE; MENTAL HEALTH; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLITICS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFUGEE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY; SLEEP DISORDER; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOMATIZATION; TRUST; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 67651083466     PISSN: 14761793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mppsy.2009.05.002     Document Type: Review

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