Stories of growing up amid violence by refugee children of war and children of battered women living in Canada

Journal of Nursing Scholarship

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 57-63

  Berman, Helene ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Children and adolescents; Narrative; Violence; War

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BATTERED WOMAN; BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA; BURUNDI; CANADA; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIBERIA; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REFUGEE; SOMALIA; VIOLENCE; WAR;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; BATTERED WOMEN; BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA; BURUNDI; CANADA; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; LIBERIA; MALE; REFUGEES; SOMALIA; VIOLENCE; WAR;

EID: 0032618589     PISSN: 15276546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1547-5069.1999.tb00422.x     Document Type: Article

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