Disasters, victimization, and children's mental health

Child Development

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1040-1052

  Becker Blease, Kathryn A ^a   Turner, Heather A ^b   Finkelhor, David ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; CHILD; DEPRESSION; DISASTER; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; SURVIVOR; UNITED STATES; VICTIM; CRIME VICTIM; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; AGGRESSION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRIME VICTIMS; DEPRESSION; DISASTERS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; PREVALENCE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVIVORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77955138127     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2010.01453.x     Document Type: Article

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