The Children's Revised Impact of Event Scale (CRIES): Validity as a screening instrument for PTSD

Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 487-498

  Perrin, Sean ^a   Meiser Stedman, Richard ^a   Smith, Patrick ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Children; Measurement; PTSD; Validity

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT REFERRAL; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SCHOOL CHILD; SCREENING; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 27644478580     PISSN: 13524658     EISSN: 14691833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1352465805002419     Document Type: Article

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