Effect of Psychological Skills Training During Military Survival School: A Randomized, Controlled Field Study

Military Medicine

Volumn 176, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1362-1368

  Taylor, Marcus K ^a   Stanfill, Katherine E ^a   Padilla, Genieleah A ^a   Markham, Amanda E ^a   Ward, Michael D ^b   Koehler, Matthew M ^b   Anglero, Antonio ^a   Adams, Barry D ^a  

^a NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b John McCain Boulevard   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IN SERVICE TRAINING; MALE; MEDICINE; METHODOLOGY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOLDIER; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; COMBAT DISORDERS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INSERVICE TRAINING; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; NAVAL MEDICINE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 83255173974     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED-D-11-00149     Document Type: Article

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