Road traffic accidents: Early psychological consequences in children and adolescents

British Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 170, Issue APR., 1997, Pages 358-362

  Di Gallo, Alain ^a   Barton, Joanne ^a   Parry Jones, William Ll ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD; COPING BEHAVIOR; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEAR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOOD; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

EID: 0030989162     PISSN: 00071250     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.170.4.358     Document Type: Article

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