Secondary traumatization among wives of Israeli POWs: the role of POWs' distress
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric EpidemiologyPublished 8 December 2005
Rachel Dekel, Zahava Solomon
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The findings show that the husbands' PTSD was more strongly associated with the wives' secondary traumatization than their captivity, and in addition to husband's PTSD and captivity, both the man's aggression and the wife's self-disclosure played a role in the Wife's level of distress.
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The findings show that the husbands' PTSD was more strongly associated with the wives' secondary traumatization than their captivity.
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