Emotional and behavioural problems in migrant adolescents in Belgium

European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 54-62

  Derluyn, Ilse ^a   Broekaert, Eric ^a   Schuyten, Gilberte ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Emotional problems; Migrant adolescents; Prevalence study; Refugee adolescents

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BELGIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIGRATION; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REFUGEE; SELF REPORT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYMPTOM;

ADOLESCENT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; ANXIETY DISORDERS; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; BELGIUM; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; REFERENCE VALUES; REFUGEES; RISK FACTORS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 38849104521     PISSN: 10188827     EISSN: 1435165X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00787-007-0636-x     Document Type: Article

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