Does community violence exposure predict trauma symptoms in a sample of maltreated youth in foster care?

Violence and Victims

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 755-769

  Garrido, Edward F ^a   Culhane, Sara E ^a   Raviv, Tali ^b   Taussig, Heather N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Community violence exposure; Coping styles; Family violence exposure; Trauma symptoms

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DEMOGRAPHY; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; FEMALE; FOSTER CARE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL STATUS; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; VICTIM;

AGGRESSION; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CRIME VICTIMS; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; FEMALE; FOSTER HOME CARE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL CONDITIONS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78651349923     PISSN: 08866708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1891/0886-6708.25.6.755     Document Type: Article

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