A psychotherapy model for treating refugee children caught in the midst of catastrophic situations

Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 625-642

  Rothe, Eugenio M ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AROUSAL; ART THERAPY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CUBA; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GRIEF; GUATEMALA; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REFUGEE; UNITED STATES; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ADOLESCENT; AROUSAL; ART THERAPY; CHILD; CUBA; FEMALE; GRIEF; GUATEMALA; HUMANS; MALE; NARRATION; PSYCHOANALYTIC THERAPY; REFUGEES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; UNITED STATES;

EID: 61549117179     PISSN: 15460371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/jaap.2008.36.4.625     Document Type: Review

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