Collective Traumatic Stress: Crisis and Catastrophes

Stress in Health and Disease

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 69-91

  Weisæth, Lars ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Central concepts; Central models; Collective traumatic stress; Consequences to health; Society's denial of psychic trauma; Stress at organizational level; Stress at societal level; Stress in health and disease

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891283376     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/3527609156.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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