PTSD among a treatment sample of repeat DUI offenders

Journal of Traumatic Stress

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 468-473

  Peller, Allyson J ^a   Najavits, Lisa M ^b   Nelson, Sarah E ^c   LaBrie, Richard A ^c   Shaffer, Howard J ^c  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY TEST; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECURRENT DISEASE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOLIC INTOXICATION; ALCOHOLISM; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ADMISSION; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78249279988     PISSN: 08949867     EISSN: 15736598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jts.20550     Document Type: Article

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