Evaluation of a third-location decompression program for Canadian forces members returning from Afghanistan

Military Medicine

Volumn 177, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 397-403

  Garber, Bryan G ^a   Zamorski, Mark A ^a  

^a Canadian Forces Health Services Group Headquarters   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFGHANISTAN; ARTICLE; CANADA; COUNSELING; CYPRUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECREATION; SOLDIER; WAR;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFGHANISTAN; CANADA; COMBAT DISORDERS; COUNSELING; CYPRUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; RECREATION; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; WAR;

EID: 84860628771     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: 1930613X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED-D-11-00302     Document Type: Article

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