Psycho-educational interventions designed to prevent deployment-related psychological ill-health in Armed Forces personnel: A review

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 673-686

  Mulligan, K ^a   Fear, N T ^a   Jones, N ^a   Wessely, S ^a   Greenberg, N ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Deployment; military; occupational stress; psycho education

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOLISM; CRISIS INTERVENTION; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT EDUCATION; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SOLDIER; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ALCOHOLISM; COMBAT DISORDERS; CRISIS INTERVENTION; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RISK FACTORS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79251524038     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: 14698978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S003329171000125X     Document Type: Review

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