Trauma and Violence: Are Women the Weaker Sex?

Psychiatric Clinics of North America

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 465-474

  Pratchett, Laura C ^a,b   Pelcovitz, Michelle R ^a,b   Yehuda, Rachel ^a,b  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender; Prevalence; Risk; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BORDERLINE STATE; CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE; EMOTION; GENDER BIAS; HUMAN; PARTNER VIOLENCE; PERSONALITY DISORDER; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL ABUSE; SEXUAL CRIME; VIOLENCE;

ADULT; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PREVALENCE; RAPE; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SPOUSE ABUSE; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VIOLENCE;

EID: 77951478393     PISSN: 0193953X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psc.2010.01.010     Document Type: Review

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