Community-based mental health treatments for survivors of torture and militant attacks in Southern Iraq: A randomized control trial

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Weiss, William M ^a   Murray, Laura K ^a   Zangana, Goran Abdulla Sabir ^b   Mahmooth, Zayan ^a   Kaysen, Debra ^c   Dorsey, Shannon ^c   Lindgren, Kristen ^c   Gross, Alden ^a   Murray, Sarah McIvor ^a   Bass, Judith K ^a   Bolton, Paul ^a  

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

^b USA   (Iraq)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive therapy; Community health workers; Global mental health; Iraq; Mental health services; Psychological trauma; Randomized controlled trial; Task shifting; Torture survivors; Transdiagnostic

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE PROCESSING THERAPY; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMMON ELEMENTS TREATMENT APPROACH; COMMUNITY CARE; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IRAQ; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PSYCHOTHERAPY; PSYCHOTRAUMA; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SOLDIER; TORTURE SURVIVOR; VIOLENCE; ANXIETY; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; SURVIVOR; TORTURE; WAR EXPOSURE;

ADULT; ANXIETY; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRAQ; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; SURVIVORS; TORTURE; VIOLENCE; WAR EXPOSURE;

EID: 84945206514     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12888-015-0622-7     Document Type: Article

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