Making sense of traumatic experiences: Telling your life with fragile X syndrome

Qualitative Health Research

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 741-759

  Medved, Maria I ^a   Brockmeier, Jens ^a,b  

^a NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Assessment; Fragile x syndrome; Mental retardation; Narrative; Trauma

Indexed keywords

CASE REPORT; COGNITION; COMMUNICATION SKILL; FEMALE; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; LITERATURE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD ABUSE; INTERVIEW; MIGRATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NORTH AMERICA; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD ABUSE; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MENTAL RETARDATION; NARRATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NORTH AMERICA; STRESS DISORDERS, TRAUMATIC;

EID: 3342966902     PISSN: 10497323     EISSN: 15527557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049732304265972     Document Type: Review

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