Long-term effects of trauma: Psychosocial functioning of the second and third generation of Holocaust survivors

Development and Psychopathology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 603-622

  Scharf, Miri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTMENT; ADOLESCENT; AMBIVALENCE; ANXIETY; ARMY; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BATTLE INJURY; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRIME; DEPRESSION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; FAMILY; FATHER; GRANDCHILD; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INDEPENDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOTHER; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PARANOIA; PARENT; PEER GROUP; PHOBIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PSYCHOSIS; PSYCHOTRAUMA; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOMATIZATION; SURVIVAL;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD OF IMPAIRED PARENTS; CONCENTRATION CAMPS; FAMILY; HOLOCAUST; HUMANS; INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONS; ISRAEL; JEWS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PARENTING; PEER GROUP; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVIVORS;

EID: 34247645076     PISSN: 09545794     EISSN: 14692198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0954579407070290     Document Type: Article

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