Intimate Partner and General Aggression Perpetration Among Combat Veterans Presenting to a Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Clinic

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 461-468

  Taft, Casey T ^a   Weatherill, Robin P ^a   Woodward, Halley E ^b   Pinto, Lavinia A ^b   Watkins, Laura E ^b   Miller, Mark W ^a   Dekel, Rachel ^c  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VA BOSTON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Aggression; Domestic violence; Posttraumatic stress disorder; Veterans

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGGRESSION; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEPRESSION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARTNER VIOLENCE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; VETERAN;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGGRESSION; AROUSAL; COMBAT DISORDERS; DEPRESSION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPOUSE ABUSE; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; VETERANS;

EID: 77950349884     PISSN: 00029432     EISSN: 19390025     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0016657     Document Type: Article

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