Does language of retrieval affect the remembering of trauma?

Journal of Trauma and Dissociation

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 44-56

  Schwanberg, Jennifer Suzanne ^a  

^a FIELDING GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilingual trauma memory; Language; Trauma remembering

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CHILDHOOD INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUNSELING; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; EPISODIC MEMORY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL HEALTH; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SEMANTIC MEMORY;

ADULT; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; MULTILINGUALISM; PSYCHOTHERAPY; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 74349101599     PISSN: 15299732     EISSN: 15299740     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15299730903143550     Document Type: Article

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