Culture-Sensitive and Resource Oriented Peer (CROP) - groups as a community based intervention for trauma survivors: A randomized controlled pilot study with refugees and asylum seekers from Chechnya

Australasian Journal of Disaster and Trauma Studies

Volumn 2011, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Renner, Walter ^a   Bänninger Huber, Eva ^a   Peltzer, Karl ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Asylum seekers; Evaluation; Post traumatic stress; Refugees; Self help

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052164840     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11744707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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