Towards an exposure-dependent model of post-traumatic stress: Longitudinal course of post-traumatic stress symptomatology and functional impairment after the 2011 Oslo bombing

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 15, 2016, Pages 3241-3254

  Solberg, O ^a   Birkeland, M S ^a   Blix, I ^a   Hansen, M B ^a   Heir, T ^a,b  

^a Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Exposure; functional impairment; post traumatic stress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; BOMB; DISEASE EXACERBATION; EMOTION; EXPOSURE TO VIOLENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORWAY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOTRAUMA; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; TERRORISM;

ADULT; AROUSAL; BOMBS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EMOTIONS; EXPOSURE TO VIOLENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORWAY; PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAUMA; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TERRORISM;

EID: 84986587905     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: 14698978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291716001860     Document Type: Article

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