Social anxiety disorder: A review of environmental risk factors

Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment

Volumn 4, Issue 1 A, 2008, Pages 123-143

  Brook, Christina A ^a   Schmidt, Louis A ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL ABUSE; ANXIETY; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CHILD REARING; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG ABUSE; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FAMILY INTERACTION; HUMAN; MATERNAL STRESS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MENTAL DISEASE; PARENTAL ATTITUDE; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOTRAUMA; QUALITY OF LIFE; RACE DIFFERENCE; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIBLING RELATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PHOBIA; SOCIAL STATUS; SUICIDE;

EID: 41549140795     PISSN: 11766328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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