Exploring the relationship between exposure to violence, perceptions of neighborhood safety, and children's adaptive functioning: Clinical and community implications

Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 744-761

  Maschi, Tina ^a   Perez, Rose M ^a   Tyson, Edgar ^a  

^a FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive functioning; Child behavior checklist; Child maltreatment; Community violence; Neighborhood safety

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956404265     PISSN: 10911359     EISSN: 15403556     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10911351003749144     Document Type: Article

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