War and Mental Health

Adults

Karam EG (1999). Women and the Lebanon Wars: Depression and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. In: Women and War in Lebanon. Shehadeh LR (ed), University Press of Florida, 274-81.

Karam EG (1997). Comorbidity of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Depression. In : Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Acute and longterm Responses to Trauma and Disaster. Fullerton, CS and Ursano, R5(eds). American Psychiatric Association: 77-90.

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Children and Adolescents

Fayyad JA, Salamoun MM, Karam EG, Karam AN, Mneimneh ZN, Tabet CC. (2008) (Chapter 12): Child Mental Health Services in War and Peace: Perspectives from Lebanon. In Philipe Raynaud and Elena Garralda (Ed). Culture and Conflict and Child and Adolescent Mental Health.

Fayyad J, Karam EG, Karam A, Cordahi-Tabet C, Mneimneh Z, and Bou Ghosn M (2003). PTSD in Children And Adolescents Following War. In Raul R. Silva (Ed.), Posttraumatic Stress Disorders in Children And Adolescents. Handbook. W.W. Norton and Company, New York: 306 –352.

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Clinical Research 

Comorbidity Of Substance Abuse And Other Psychiatric Disorders: An Inpatient Study From Lebanon

Yabroudi P, Karam EG, Chami A, Karam A, Majdalani M, Zebouni V, Melhem N, Mansour C, and Saliba S (1999). Substance Use And Abuse: The Lebanese Female and The Lebanon Wars. In:Women And War In Lebanon. Shehadeh LR (ed). University Press Of Florida: 282-320.

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Profile of ADHD in a Lebanese Clinical Study

Fayyad J, Sadek M, and Cordahi-Tabet C (2001). Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder ADHD. In: An Arab perspective. Ahmed Okasha and Mario Maj (ed): World Psychiatric Association, Scientific Book House: 167-175.

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Reviews of Arab Research

Karam EG. and Salamoun M (2005). Substance abuse in Lebanon and the Arab World: A review of Epidemiological Studies. In: New perspectives for the Prevention and Treatment of Addictions; Proceedings of the Conference held in Hotel Monroe-Beirut, Lebanon (Skoun): 281-291. 

Karam EG, and Maalouf W (2001). Mental Health Research in the Arab Speaking Countries. In Okasha A. and Maj M. (Ed.), Images in Psychiatry: An Arab Perspective. World Psychiatric Association, 329-336. Cairo, Egypt.

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