Post-traumatic stress disorder and its treatment in children and adolescents

Current Psychiatry Reports

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 104-108

  Najjar, Fedra ^a   Weller, Ronald A ^b   Weisbrot, Jessica ^b   Weller, Elizabeth B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CITALOPRAM; CLONIDINE; LITHIUM; PROPRANOLOL; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD CARE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD NEGLECT; CHILD PSYCHIATRY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DRUG RESPONSE; HUMAN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CITALOPRAM; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; CLONIDINE; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; HUMANS; PROPRANOLOL; PSYCHOTHERAPY; PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 49649111437     PISSN: 15233812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11920-008-0019-0     Document Type: Review

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