Citation

Murphy SA, Keating JP. J. Trauma. Stress 1995; 8(3): 473-482.

Affiliation

Department of Psychosocial Nursing SC-76, University of Washington, Seattle 98195, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1995, International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

7582611

Abstract

The case study method is used to describe psychological assessments undertaken with victims of a combined natural/technological disaster for litigation purposes. A class action suit was filed in which the authors determined levels of traumatic stress in 27 plaintiffs as a group and relative to each other. The process was effective--the case was settled out of court in favor of the litigants. Individual litigants were satisfied with monetary awards received.

Language: en