What Do Youth Report as a Traumatic Event? Toward a Developmentally Informed Classification of Traumatic Stressors

Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 91-106

  Taylor, Leslie K ^a   Weems, Carl F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

Author keywords

childhood; classification; PTSD; stress; traumatic event

Indexed keywords

EID: 68049115752     PISSN: 19429681     EISSN: 1942969X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0016012     Document Type: Article

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