Scholastic impairments among traumatized adolescents

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 429-436

  Saigh, Philip A ^a,b   Mroueh, Maria ^c   Bremner, J Douglas ^d  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c LEBANESE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; STRESS;

ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEBANON; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WAR;

EID: 0030951026     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0005-7967(96)00111-8     Document Type: Article

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