A Functional Network Perspective on Posttraumatic Stress in Refugees: Implications for Theory, Classification, Assessment, and Intervention.
There is an important, long-standing debate regarding the universality vs. specificity of trauma-related mental health symptoms in socio-culturally and linguistically diverse population groups, such as refugees and asylum seekers. Network theory, an emerging development in the field of psychological...
| Publicado en: | Transcultural Psychiatry Vol. 58; no. 2; pp. 268 - 283 |
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Sage Publications, Ltd.
Apr2021
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