A household probability sample of 229 adults was interviewed four to seven months afier the Sierra Madre earthquake (June 28, 1991; Los Angeles County). The study predicted psychological distress from these variables: demographics, traumatic event histoty, low magnitude event histoty, earthquake rel
Pastoral care following a natural disaster
โ Scribed by Rosemary Chinnici
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1985
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 514 KB
- Volume
- 33
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0031-2789
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