Children's Trauma and Adjustment Reactions to Violent and Nonviolent War Experiences

Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 450-457

  Allwood, Maureen A ^a   Bell Dolan, Debora ^a   Husain, Syed Arshad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Posttraumatic stress disorder; Trauma; Violence; War

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BATTLE INJURY; BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA; CHILD; COPING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOTRAUMA; QUESTIONNAIRE; STRESS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VIOLENCE; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADJUSTMENT DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; WAR;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADJUSTMENT DISORDERS; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; VIOLENCE; WAR;

EID: 0036549169     PISSN: 08908567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004583-200204000-00018     Document Type: Article

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