Acculturation, development, and adaptation

Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 681-696

  Rothe, Eugenio M ^a   Tzuang, Dan ^b   Pumariega, Andres J ^c,d  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d READING HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Acculturation; Childhood; Culture; Development

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COPING BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNICITY; FAMILY RELATION; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; IMMIGRATION; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSOCIAL DEVELOPMENT; REVIEW; SOCIAL ATTITUDE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; UNITED STATES;

ACCULTURATION; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; ETHNOPSYCHOLOGY; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MULTILINGUALISM; PSYCHOPATHOLOGY; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78149268702     PISSN: 10564993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chc.2010.07.002     Document Type: Review

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