Elevated picture completion scores: A possible indicator of hypervigilance in maltreated preschoolers

Child Abuse and Neglect

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 63-70

  Frankel, Karen A ^a   Boetsch, Elizabeth A ^a   Harmon, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Hypervigilance; Maltreatment abuse; Preschool; WPPSI R or Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scales of Intelligence Revised

Indexed keywords

ALERTNESS; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CHILD ABUSE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY VIOLENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; INTELLIGENCE TEST; MALE; NEGLECT; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

AROUSAL; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD DAY CARE CENTERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COLORADO; EARLY INTERVENTION (EDUCATION); FEMALE; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 0033991825     PISSN: 01452134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0145-2134(99)00110-6     Document Type: Article

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