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The ADAPT model: bridging the gap between psychosocial and individual responses to mass violence and refugee trauma

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 December 2016

A. K. Tay  and
D. Silove
A. K. Tay*
Affiliation:
Psychiatry Research and Teaching Unit, Academic Mental Health Unit, Liverpool Hospital, School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
D. Silove
Affiliation:
Psychiatry Research and Teaching Unit, Academic Mental Health Unit, Liverpool Hospital, School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
*
* Address for correspondence: A. K. Tay, Department of Psychiatry, Psychiatry Research and Teaching Unit, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. (Email: alvin.tay@unsw.edu.au)
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Keywords

ADAPTrefugees and post-conflict mental healthpreventionhealth promotion

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Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences , Volume 26 , Issue 2 , April 2017 , pp. 142 - 145
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2016 

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