Trauma and disaster as life disrupters: a model of computer-assisted psychotherapy applied to adolescent victims of the Chernobyl disaster.

This article reports on a computer-based, psychologist-assisted technology for addressing posttraumatic responses in Chernobyl-disaster-affected children. Mental health professionals who worked with this population reveal substantially distorted thoughts and feelings about the children's past, pres...

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Published in:	Professional Psychology: Research & Practice Vol. 30; no. 6; pp. 586 - 600
Main Authors:	Kronik, Aleksandr A., Akhmerov, Rashad A., Speckhard, Anne
Format:	Article
Published:	American Psychological Association December 1999
Subjects:	Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobyl, Ukraine, 1986 Care of youth with mental illness Post-traumatic stress disorder Psychotherapy Computer software
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