The stressor criterion for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) has been recently modified to include life-threatening illnesses, such as cancer, as precipitating traumatic events. We sought to examine the empiric evidence for cancer's inclusion as a traumatic stressor. Nine published studies asses
Acute stress disorder and subsequent post-traumatic stress disorder in a group of exposed disaster workers
✍ Scribed by Thomas A. Grieger; Jeffrey P. Staab; Etzel Cardeña; James E. McCarroll; George T. Brandt; Carol S. Fullerton; Robert I. Ursano
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 35 KB
- Volume
- 11
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1091-4269
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