Dissemination of psychotherapy for trauma spectrum disorders in postconflict settings: A randomized controlled trial in Rwanda

Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics

Volumn 83, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 354-363

  Jacob, Nadja ^a   Neuner, Frank ^b   Maedl, Anna ^a   Schaal, Susanne ^a   Elbert, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dissemination; Genocide survivors; Narrative exposure therapy; Posttraumatic stress disorder; Train the trainer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; GENOCIDE; GRIEF; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NARRATIVE EXPOSURE THERAPY; NARRATIVE THERAPY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGIST; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RWANDA; RWANDAN; SURVIVOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; MIDDLE AGED; ORPHANED CHILD; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOLOGY; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS DISORDERS, TRAUMATIC; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; CHILD, ORPHANED; FEMALE; GENOCIDE; HUMANS; IMPLOSIVE THERAPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NARRATIVE THERAPY; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; RWANDA; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS DISORDERS, TRAUMATIC; SURVIVORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84908304560     PISSN: 00333190     EISSN: 14230348     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000365114     Document Type: Article

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