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Chapter 15 - Natural and Human-Made Disasters

from Section 4 - Factors Influencing the Onset and Course of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 July 2018

By
Evelyn J. Bromet ,
Silvia Florescu ,
Giovanni de Girolamo ,
Fernando Navarro-Mateu  and
Elie G. Karam
Edited by
Evelyn J. Bromet ,
Elie G. Karam ,
Karestan C. Koenen  and
Dan J. Stein
Evelyn J. Bromet
Affiliation:
State University of New York, Stony Brook
Elie G. Karam
Affiliation:
St George Hospital University Medical Center, Lebanon
Karestan C. Koenen
Affiliation:
Harvard University, Massachusetts
Dan J. Stein
Affiliation:
University of Cape Town
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Trauma and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Global Perspectives from the WHO World Mental Health Surveys
 , pp. 226 - 239
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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