Quality of Care After Early Childhood Trauma and Well-Being in Later Life: Child Holocaust Survivors Reaching Old Age

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 514-522

  van der Hal van Raalte, Elisheva ^a   Van IJzendoorn, Marinus H ^a   Bakermans Kranenburg, Marian J ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

after trauma care; child survivors; Holocaust survivors; sequential traumatization; trauma

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILDHOOD INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRIME; DEPRESSION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SURVIVAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD OF IMPAIRED PARENTS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; HOLOCAUST; HUMANS; LONELINESS; MALE; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVIVORS;

EID: 38549084917     PISSN: 00029432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0002-9432.77.4.514     Document Type: Article

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