Understanding the trauma of first-episode psychosis

Early Intervention in Psychiatry

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 211-220

  Dunkley, Jane E ^a   Bates, Glen W ^a   Findlay, Bruce M ^a  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

First episode psychosis; Interpretative phenomenological analysis; Longitudinal; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RELIABILITY; STIGMA; TRIANGULATION; VALIDITY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84928422346     PISSN: 17517885     EISSN: 17517893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/eip.12103     Document Type: Article

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