Part I - The mental health impacts of migration: The law and its effects: Failing to understand: Refugee determination and the traumatized applicant

International Journal of Law and Psychiatry

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 511-528

  Steel, Zachary ^a   Frommer, Naomi ^a   Silove, Derrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; DISTRESS SYNDROME; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; INJURY; LAW; LEGAL ASPECT; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MEMORY; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIGRATION; PANIC; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; REFUGEE; REVIEW; SEXUAL CRIME;

EID: 9344246867     PISSN: 01602527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijlp.2004.08.006     Document Type: Article

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