Door to the unknown: On large-scale public mental health interventions in postconflict zones-experiences from Georgia

Traumatology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 63-72

  Makhashvili, Nino ^a   Tsiskarishvili, Lela ^b   Droždek, Boris ^c  

^a Global Initiative on Psychiatry   (Georgia)

^b Georgian Center for Medical and Psychosocial Rehabilitation of Torture Victims   (Georgia)

^c Psychotrauma Centrum Zuid Nederland   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

culture; ethnicity; human affected disasters; interventions for the traumatized; race

Indexed keywords

EID: 79551510485     PISSN: 15347656     EISSN: 10859373     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1534765610388302     Document Type: Article

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