Clinical implications of traumatic stress from birth to age five

Annual Review of Clinical Psychology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2010, Pages 469-494

  Chu, Ann T ^a   Lieberman, Alicia F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Early childhood; Infant mental health; Intervention; PTSD; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE OUTCOME; ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; BIRTH; BRAIN FUNCTION; CASE MANAGEMENT; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONVALESCENCE; COPING BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL FACTOR; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; EARLY CHILDHOOD INTERVENTION; EARLY LIFE STRESS; EMOTIONAL STRESS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ETHNICITY; GROUP THERAPY; HUMAN; INFANCY; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; POLICY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; RACE; REVIEW; SOCIAL STATUS;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; VIOLENCE;

EID: 77952915960     PISSN: 15485943     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.clinpsy.121208.131204     Document Type: Review

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