World Health Organization Guidelines for Management of Acute Stress, PTSD, and Bereavement: Key Challenges on the Road Ahead

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Tol, Wietse A ^a   Barbui, Corrado ^b   Bisson, Jonathan ^c   Cohen, Judith ^d   Hijazi, Zeinab ^e,q   Jones, Lynne ^f   de Jong, Joop T V M ^g   Magrini, Nicola ^h   Omigbodun, Olayinka ⁱ   Seedat, Soraya ^j   Silove, Derrick ^k   Souza, Renato ^l   Sumathipala, Athula ^m,r   Vijayakumar, Lakshmi ⁿ   Weissbecker, Inka ^e,q   Zatzick, Douglas ^o   van Ommeren, Mark ^p  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^d DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS   (United States)

^f HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^h WHO Collaborating Centre for Evidence based Research Synthesis and Guideline Development   (Italy)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

^j STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^k UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^l UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^m KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

ⁿ The Voluntary Health Services Chennai   (India)

^o UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^p WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^q Institute for Research and Developmento ^*  (United States)

^r Institute for Research and Developmento   (Sri Lanka)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE STRESS DISORDER; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; BEREAVEMENT COUNSELING; CLINICAL SUPERVISION; COGNITIVE THERAPY; ENURESIS; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; HYPERVENTILATION SYNDROME; INSOMNIA; INTERVENTION STUDY; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PROGRAM EFFECTIVENESS; SOCIAL CLASS; BEREAVEMENT; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL STRESS; STANDARDS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

BEREAVEMENT; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; HUMANS; MENTAL HEALTH; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84920973959     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001769     Document Type: Article

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