What every professional who works with adolescents needs to know about firesetters

Adolescence

Volumn 35, Issue 140, 2000, Pages 758-773

  Slavkin, Michael L ^b   Fineman, Kenneth ^a  

^a Neuropsychiatric Medical Group   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN INDIANA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARSON; ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COGNITIVE DEFECT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MANPOWER; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; FIRESETTING BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 0034567876     PISSN: 00018449     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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