The Child Asylum Seeker: Psychological and Developmental Impact of Immigration Detention

Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 665-683

  Newman, Louise K ^a   Steel, Zachary ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b Psychiatry Research Unit   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD PSYCHIATRY; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DISTRESS SYNDROME; HUMAN; IMMIGRATION; MENTAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

CHILD; CHILD ADVOCACY; COMMITMENT OF MENTALLY ILL; HUMANS; MALE; PRISONS; PUNISHMENT; REFUGEES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 44949101511     PISSN: 10564993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chc.2008.02.009     Document Type: Review

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