Communal Violence and Child Psychosocial Well-being: QualitativE Findings from Poso, Indonesia

Transcultural Psychiatry

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 112-135

  Tol, Wietse A ^a   Reis, Ria ^b   Susanty, Dessy ^c   de Jong, Joop T v m ^d  

^a Department of Research and Development   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

children; Indonesia; political violence; psychosocial; war

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMUNAL VIOLENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY COUNSELING; FEAR; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; INCOME; INDONESIA; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; POVERTY; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; PSYCHOTRAUMA; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RELIGION; SCHOOL CHILD; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SOCIAL INTERACTION; VIOLENCE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CASE REPORT; CHILD WELFARE; CONFLICT; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; ISLAM; MORALITY; POLITICS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREJUDICE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL PROBLEM; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; WAR;

CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; CHILD WELFARE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEAR; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; INDONESIA; ISLAM; MALE; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; MORAL DEVELOPMENT; POLITICS; POVERTY; PREJUDICE; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL PROBLEMS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; VIOLENCE; WAR;

EID: 77952978121     PISSN: 13634615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1363461510364573     Document Type: Article

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