Parental Adjustment, Family Functioning, and Posttraumatic Growth Among Norwegian Children and Adolescents Following a Natural Disaster

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 248-257

  Hafstad, Gertrud S ^a   Gil Rivas, Virginia ^b   Kilmer, Ryan P ^b   Raeder, Sabine ^c  

^a Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Children; Coping; Family environment; Longitudinal; Multilevel modeling; Natural disaster; Parental distress; Post traumatic growth; Social context; Thailand; Trauma; Tsunami

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTMENT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY FUNCTIONING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NORWAY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SURVIVOR; SYMPTOM; THAILAND; TSUNAMI; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; CHILD PARENT RELATION; COMPLICATION; DISASTER; INJURY; MEDICAL LEAVE; MIDDLE AGED; PARENT; PSYCHOLOGY; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TIME;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; DISASTERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORWAY; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTS; SICK LEAVE; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TIME FACTORS; TSUNAMIS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 77953572249     PISSN: 00029432     EISSN: 19390025     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1939-0025.2010.01028.x     Document Type: Article

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