Correlates of symptom reduction in treatment-seeking survivors of torture

Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 377-383

  Raghavan, Sumithra ^a   Rasmussen, Andrew ^b   Rosenfeld, Barry ^a   Keller, Allen S ^b  

^a FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

program evaluation; refugees; torture treatment; trauma

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880912490     PISSN: 19429681     EISSN: 1942969X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0028118     Document Type: Article

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