Adult adjustment of survivors of institutional child abuse in Ireland

Child Abuse and Neglect

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 477-489

  Carr, Alan ^a   Dooley, Barbara ^a   Fitzpatrick, Mark ^a   Flanagan, Edel ^a   Flanagan Howard, Roisin ^a   Tierney, Kevin ^a   White, Megan ^a   Daly, Margaret ^a   Egan, Jonathan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b HEALTH SERVICE EXECUTIVE   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Clerical abuse; Institutional abuse

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADJUSTMENT; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CHILD ABUSE; CHILDHOOD TRAUMA QUESTIONNAIRE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EXPERIENCES IN CLOSE RELATIONSHIPS INVENTORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONAL CARE; IRELAND; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MOOD DISORDER; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOTRAUMA; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEX DIFFERENCE; STRUCTURED CLINICAL INTERVIEW FOR DSM DISORDERS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; SURVIVOR; SYMPTOM; TRAUMA SYMPTOM INVENTORY; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CHILD; MIDDLE AGED; MOOD DISORDERS; PSYCHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; VERY ELDERLY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ADULT SURVIVORS OF CHILD ABUSE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRELAND; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOOD DISORDERS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 77953709651     PISSN: 01452134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2009.11.003     Document Type: Article

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