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The 1988 Spitak Earthquake in Armenia: Implementation of a Mental Health Program and Clinical Observations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Armen Goenjian
Affiliation:
Visiting Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of California-Los Angeles, School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California; Medical Director, Adult and Geriatric Psychiatry, Pacific Hospital, Long Beach, California, USA
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Abstract

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Type
Overview of Large-Scale Disasters: Consequences, Social and other Problems, Special Characteristics
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1996

References

Selected References

Goenjian, A: A mental health relief programme in Armenia after the 1988 earthquake: Implementation and clinical observations. Br J Psychiatry 1993;163: 230239.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Goenjian, A: Najarian, LM; Pynoos, RS et al. : Post-traumatic stress reactions after single and double trauma. Ada Psychiatrica Scand 1994;90: 214221.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed