The Effects of State Terrorism and Exile on Indigenous Guatemalan Refugee Children: A Mental Health Assessment and an Analysis of Children's Narratives

Child Development

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 89-106

  Miller, Kenneth E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; CHILD; DEPRESSION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; GUATEMALA; HUMAN; MALE; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PERSONALITY TEST; POLITICS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REFUGEE; VIOLENCE;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; DEPRESSION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; GUATEMALA; HUMANS; INDIANS, CENTRAL AMERICAN; MALE; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; POLITICS; REFUGEES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0030075202     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.1996.tb01721.x     Document Type: Article

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