The Effects of Vicarious Exposure to the Recent Massacre at Virginia Tech

Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 220-230

  Fallahi, Carolyn R ^a   Lesik, Sally A ^a  

^a CENTRAL CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

acute stress disorder; multinomial logit models; posttraumatic stress disorder; vicarious exposure; Virginia Tech tragedy

Indexed keywords

EID: 72149134262     PISSN: 19429681     EISSN: 1942969X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0015052     Document Type: Article

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