Stressors, supports and the social ecology of displacement: Psychosocial dimensions of an emergency education program for chechen adolescents displaced in Ingushetia, Russia

Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 309-340

  Betancourt, Theresa Stichick ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Chechnya; Emergency education; Mental health; War

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; DISASTER; EDUCATION; EMERGENCY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; INTERVIEW; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REFUGEE; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; VULNERABLE POPULATION; WAR;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; EDUCATION; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES; INTERVIEWS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; NARRATION; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; REFUGEES; RESCUE WORK; RUSSIA; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STEREOTYPING; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS; WAR;

EID: 30744432859     PISSN: 0165005X     EISSN: 1573076X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11013-005-9170-9     Document Type: Article

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