Trauma and Disasters in Social and Cultural Context

Principles of Social Psychiatry: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 155-177

  Kirmayer, Laurence J ^a   Kienzler, Hanna ^b   Hamid Afana, Abdel ^c   Pedersen, Duncan ^d  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims   (Denmark)

^d DOUGLAS MENTAL HEALTH UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Continuing controversies trauma versus containment; Disasters health impacts at multiple levels; Technological disasters potential for accidents, affecting hundreds; Torture, extreme form of trauma; Trauma and disaster defining and delimiting; Trauma and disasters in social and cultural context; Understanding trauma, short and long term adaptive and pathological responses; War and political violence dramatic increase in proportion of civilian casualties

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881134307     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470684214.ch13     Document Type: Chapter

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