Assessment of elementary school children for disaster-related posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms: The kauai recovery index

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 191, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 268-272

  Hamada, Roger S ^a   Kameoka, Velma ^b   Yanagida, Evelyn ^a   Chemtob, Claude M ^c,d  

^a University of Hawaii at Mano'a ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c National Center for PTSD   (United States)

^d MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; DISASTER; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOMETRY; SCHOOL CHILD; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 0242668315     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.NMD.0000061147.39051.91     Document Type: Article

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