Covid-19 response: Traumatic stress in the age of Covid-19: A call to close critical gaps and adapt to new realities

Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2020, Pages 331-335

  Horesh, Danny ^a   Brown, Adam D ^b  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

COVID 19; Pandemic; PTSD; Trauma; Virus

Indexed keywords

BETACORONAVIRUS; CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN; PANDEMIC; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOTRAUMA; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS 2; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

BETACORONAVIRUS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; HUMANS; PANDEMICS; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAUMA;

EID: 85083205148     PISSN: 19429681     EISSN: 1942969X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/TRA0000592     Document Type: Article

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