Review of child and adolescent refugee mental health

Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 24-36

  Lustig, Stuart L ^a,c,e   Kia Keating, Maryam ^a   Knight, Wanda Grant ^a   Geltman, Paul ^a   Ellis, Heidi ^a   Kinzie, J David ^b   Keane, Terence ^a,d   Saxe, Glenn N ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d Veterans Administration   (United States)

^e BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Child and adolescent psychiatry; Refugees; Transcultural psychiatry

Indexed keywords

CHILD HEALTH; CHILD PSYCHIATRY; COPING BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL FACTOR; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MEDLINE; MENTAL HEALTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCINFO; REFUGEE; REVIEW; STRESS; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CRISIS INTERVENTION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; HOMELESSNESS; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MIGRATION; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; WAR;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CRISIS INTERVENTION; CULTURE; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; HOMELESS YOUTH; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; REFUGEES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; WAR;

EID: 3042698679     PISSN: 08908567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004583-200401000-00012     Document Type: Article

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