Psychopathology in Refugee and Asylum Seeking Children

Rutter's Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Fifth Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 474-486

  Hodes, Matthew ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conceptual issues in refugee mental health; Course and intergenerational effects; Epidemiological findings; Implications for services and interventions; Methodological considerations; Population movements; Risk and resilience for psychopathology; Unaccompanied asylum seeking children

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956966688     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444300895.ch31     Document Type: Chapter

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