Executive function performance and trauma exposure in a community sample of children

Child Abuse and Neglect

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 353-361

  DePrince, Anne P ^a   Weinzierl, Kristin M ^a   Combs, Melody D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Child abuse; Cognition; Dissociation; Executive function; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; AUDITORY RESPONSE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CHILD; CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE; COGNITION; COMMUNITY SAMPLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; FAMILY VIOLENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL STATUS; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; WORKING MEMORY;

ANXIETY; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COGNITION DISORDERS; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 67349139873     PISSN: 01452134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2008.08.002     Document Type: Article

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