Mental health issues in unaccompanied refugee minors

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health

Volumn 3, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Huemer, Julia ^a   Karnik, Niranjan S ^b   Voelkl Kernstock, Sabine ^a   Granditsch, Elisabeth ^a   Dervic, Kanita ^a   Friedrich, Max H ^a   Steiner, Hans ^c  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BORDERLINE STATE; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONAL STRESS; ETHNICITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; IMMIGRATION; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; REFUGEE; RELIGION; REVIEW; SEXUAL ABUSE; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL WELFARE; STRESS MANAGEMENT;

EID: 66149085758     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17532000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1753-2000-3-13     Document Type: Review

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