The experience of collective trauma in Australian Indigenous communities

Australasian Psychiatry

Volumn 17, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2009, Pages

  Krieg, Anthea ^a  

^a Aboriginal Wellbeing and Liaison Program   (Australia)

Author keywords

Connectedness; Healing; Indigenous; Relationships; Trauma

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMMUNITY CARE; DISASTER; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; REVIEW; WELLBEING; ABORIGINE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; DEMOGRAPHY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INJURY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

AUSTRALIA; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MENTAL HEALTH; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PREJUDICE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 70349306954     PISSN: 10398562     EISSN: 14401665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10398560902948621     Document Type: Review

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