Adjustment disorders after severe life-events in four postconflict settings

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 39-46

  Dobricki, Martin ^a   Komproe, Ivan H ^b   De Jong, Joop T V M ^c   Maercker, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Transcultural Psychosocial Org   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adjustment disorders; Postconflict countries; Psychopathology; Severe life events; Stress related disorders

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTMENT DISORDER; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALGERIA; ARTICLE; CAMBODIA; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISRAEL; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; STATISTICS; SURVIVOR; WAR;

ADJUSTMENT DISORDERS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGERIA; CAMBODIA; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVIVORS; WAR;

EID: 76849113750     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-009-0039-z     Document Type: Article

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