The importance of the concepts of disaster, catastrophe, violence, trauma and barbarism in defining posttraumatic stress disorder in clinical practice
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Several terms in the scientific literature about posttraumatic stress disorder are used with different meanings in studies conducted by different authors. Words such as <it>trauma, violence, catastrophe, disaster </it>and...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2008-08-01
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| Series: | BMC Psychiatry |
| Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-244X/8/68 |