Child survivors of the holocaust: symptoms and coping after fifty years

Israel Journal of Psychiatry and Related Sciences

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 3-12

  Cohen, Motti ^a   Brom, Danny ^b   Dasberg, Haim ^c  

^a Second Generation   (Israel)

^b HERZOG HOSPITAL   (Israel)

^c The National Israeli Center for Psychosocial Support of Survivors of the Holocaust and the Second Generation   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; CRIME; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISRAEL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SURVIVOR;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ASPIRATIONS (PSYCHOLOGY); CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HOLOCAUST; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVIVORS;

EID: 0035227197     PISSN: 03337308     EISSN: 26172402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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