Posttraumatic stress disorder in children and adolescents: History, risk, and cognitive behavioral treatment

The Practice of Child Therapy

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 433-454

  Saigh, Philip A ^a   Lee, Katherine S ^a   Ward, Anna ^a   Westphal, Elizabeth L ^a   Wilson, Kristen ^a   Fairbank, John A ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203820261     Document Type: Chapter

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