A Good War? Exploring British veterans' moral evaluation of deployment

Journal of Anxiety Disorders

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 36-42

  Burnell, Karen J ^a   Boyce, Niall ^a   Hunt, Nigel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adjustment; Morality; Societal support; War trauma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MALE; MASS MEDIUM; MENTAL HEALTH; MILITARY DEPLOYMENT; MORALITY; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOLDIER; THEMATIC ANALYSIS; VETERAN; WAR;

ADULT; AGED; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; IRAQ WAR, 2003 -; LEUCOMYCINS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MORALS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; VETERANS;

EID: 78650238510     PISSN: 08876185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2010.07.003     Document Type: Article

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