Could spirituality and religion promote stress resilience in survivors of childhood trauma?

Issues in Mental Health Nursing

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 251-256

  Brewer Smyth, Kathleen ^a   Koenig, Harold G ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; COPING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; NURSING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RELIGION; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; ADULT SURVIVORS OF CHILD ABUSE; AROUSAL; CHILD; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; RISK FACTORS; SPIRITUALITY; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 84898748574     PISSN: 01612840     EISSN: 10964673     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/01612840.2013.873101     Document Type: Article

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