Political repression and its psychological effects on Honduran children

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1699-1713

  Munczek, Débora S ^a   Tuber, Steven ^b  

^a New York Presbyterian Hospital Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Bereavement; Childhood trauma; Disappeared; Parental loss; Political violence; Rorschach and children

Indexed keywords

CHILD HEALTH; HEALTH IMPACT; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; MENTAL HEALTH; POLITICAL PROCESS; VIOLENCE;

ADOLESCENT; AFFECTIVE NEUROSIS; AGGRESSIVENESS; ANXIETY NEUROSIS; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD PSYCHIATRY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HOMICIDE; HONDURAS; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MOURNING; OBJECT RELATION; POLITICS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; SOCIOECONOMICS; VIOLENCE;

BEREAVEMENT; CHILD; FEMALE; HONDURAS; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMANS; MALE; PARENTS; POLITICS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VIOLENCE; WAR;

HONDURAS;

EID: 0031761737     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(98)00252-4     Document Type: Article

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