Differences and similarities in posttraumatic stress between economic migrants and forced migrants: Acculturation and mental health within a Turkish and a Kurdish sample

International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 373-391

  Knipscheer, Jeroen W ^a   Drogendijk, Annelieke N ^b   Gülşen, Cheko H ^a   Kleber, Rolf J ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Institute for Psychotrauma   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acculturation; Mental health; Posttraumatic stress; Survey descriptive study; Turkish and Kurdish migrants

Indexed keywords

EID: 68249098987     PISSN: 16972600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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