Stigma, career worry, and mental illness symptomatology: Factors influencing treatment-seeking for operation enduring freedom and operation iraqi freedom soldiers and veterans

Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 276-283

  Brown, Nicholas B ^a   Bruce, Steven E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Military; Stigma; Treatment seeking; Veterans

Indexed keywords

ADULT; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL STIGMA; SOLDIER; VETERAN; WAR;

ADULT; AFGHAN CAMPAIGN 2001-; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRAQ WAR, 2003-2011; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; SOCIAL STIGMA; VETERANS;

EID: 85027942146     PISSN: 19429681     EISSN: 1942969X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/tra0000082     Document Type: Article

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