Trauma exposure, mental health, and service utilization rates among immigrant and United States-born Hispanic youth: Results from the Hispanic family study

Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 40-48

  Bridges, Ana J ^a,b   De Arellano, Michael A ^a   Rheingold, Alyssa A ^a   Danielson, Carla Kmett ^a   Silcott, Lauren ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Latino Hispanic; service utilization; trauma

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957882077     PISSN: 19429681     EISSN: 1942969X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0019021     Document Type: Article

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