Defense Mechanisms in Adolescent Conduct Disorder and Adjustment Reaction

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 192, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 139-145

  Cramer, Phebe ^a   Kelly, Francis D ^b  

^a WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Brightside Treatm Ctr Families/C   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Conduct disorder; Defense mechanisms

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTMENT; ADJUSTMENT DISORDER; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONDUCT DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DENIAL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; IDENTITY; IMMATURITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; CHILD; CONDUCT DISORDER; DEFENSE MECHANISMS; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NARRATION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 1342346530     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.nmd.0000110285.53930.44     Document Type: Article

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