Coping in old age with extreme childhood trauma: Aging Holocaust survivors and their offspring facing new challenges

Aging and Mental Health

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 232-242

  Fridman, Ayala ^a,b   Bakermans Kranenburg, Marian J ^b   Sagi Schwartz, Abraham ^a   Van Ijzendoorn, Marinus H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

dissociative symptomatology; early childhood trauma; Holocaust; intergenerational transmission of trauma; mental health

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HOLOCAUST; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; ISRAEL; JEW; LIFE EVENT; MENTAL HEALTH; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; SURVIVOR;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANXIETY DISORDERS; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HOLOCAUST; HUMANS; INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONS; ISRAEL; JEWS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MENTAL STATUS SCHEDULE; QUALITY OF LIFE; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVIVORS;

EID: 79951878033     PISSN: 13607863     EISSN: 13646915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13607863.2010.505232     Document Type: Article

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