Forty days after the great east Japan earthquake: Field research investigating community engagement and traumatic stress screening in a post-disaster community mental health training

International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 159-174

  Tuerk, Peter ^a   Hall, Brian ^b   Nagae, Nobukazu ^c   McCauley, Jenna ^a   Yoder, Matthew ^a   Rauch, Sheila ^d   Acierno, Ron ^a   Dussich, John ^e  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e TOKIWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

community mental health; disaster; Japan; PTSD

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DISASTER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EARTHQUAKE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; JAPAN; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RATING SCALE; RICHTER SCALE; SCREENING; VICTIM;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; COMMUNITY-INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS; DISASTERS; EARTHQUAKES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSERVICE TRAINING; JAPAN; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; RADIOACTIVE HAZARD RELEASE; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVIVORS; VOLUNTARY WORKERS;

EID: 84879620216     PISSN: 00912174     EISSN: 15413527     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2190/PM.45.2.e     Document Type: Article

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