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A district framework for managing psychosocial aspects of disaster

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Mike Hobbs
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Natural disasters occur infrequently in Europe, but the spate of transportation, crowd and other disasters in the late 1980s challenged our collective denial of potential catastrophe. Greater attention is now given also to the frequent small-scale traumatic events which are just as devastating to the many people affected by them, such as violent assaults and road accidents.

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Research Article
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Advances in Psychiatric Treatment , Volume 1 , Issue 6 , July 1995 , pp. 176 - 183
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 1995 

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