Challenges in establishing evidence-gathering models in torture and trauma mental health services for refugees

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 202, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 630-637

  Carlsson, Jessica ^a,b   Sonne, Charlotte ^a   Silove, Derrick ^c  

^a Psychiatric Centre Ballerup   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

mental health; Refugee; trauma; treatment outcome

Indexed keywords

ACCEPTANCE AND COMMITMENT THERAPY; ASYLUM SEEKER; BOOK; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL RECORD; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MINDFULNESS; NATURAL DISASTER; PHARMACEUTICAL CARE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; PSYCHIATRIC TRAUMATOLOGY; PSYCHOEDUCATION; PSYCHOTRAUMA; QUALITY OF LIFE; RAPE; REFUGEE; REVIEW; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TORTURE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAUMATOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WAR; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FORECASTING; MENTAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FORECASTING; HUMANS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; QUALITY OF LIFE; REFUGEES; RESEARCH DESIGN; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TORTURE;

EID: 84907029848     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: 1539736X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0000000000000175     Document Type: Review

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