Early psychosocial interventions after disasters, terrorism, and other shocking events: Guideline development

Nursing and Health Sciences

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 336-343

  Te Brake, Hans ^a   Dückers, Michel ^a   De Vries, Maaike ^a   Van Duin, Daniëlle ^b   Rooze, Magda ^a   Spreeuwenberg, Cor ^c  

^a Impact   (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH AND ADDICTION   (Netherlands)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Disaster medicine; Disaster planning; Post traumatic stress disorders; Practice guidelines; Social support; Terrorism care

Indexed keywords

ACUTE STRESS DISORDER; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CRISIS INTERVENTION; DISASTER; DISASTER MEDICINE; DISASTER PLANNING; EARLY INTERVENTION; ETHNIC GROUP; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; NETHERLANDS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; SCREENING; SELF HELP; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS MANAGEMENT; SURVIVOR; TERRORISM; VICTIM;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DISASTERS; EMERGENCY NURSING; EVIDENCE-BASED NURSING; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; NETHERLANDS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PSYCHIATRIC NURSING; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TERRORISM;

EID: 70449591482     PISSN: 14410745     EISSN: 14422018     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-2018.2009.00491.x     Document Type: Article

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