Deployment stressors and outcomes among Air Force chaplains

Journal of Traumatic Stress

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 342-346

  Levy, Hannah C ^a,c   Conoscenti, Lauren M ^a,d   Tillery, John F ^b   Dickstein, Benjamin D ^a   Litz, Brett T ^a  

^a VA BOSTON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b Air Force Chaplains Corps College   (United States)

^c Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHECKLIST; CLERGY; COUNSELING; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOLDIER; WAR;

ADULT; CHECKLIST; CLERGY; COUNSELING; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MILITARY PERSONNEL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; WAR;

EID: 79958190156     PISSN: 08949867     EISSN: 15736598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jts.20646     Document Type: Note

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