Youths making sense of political conflict: Considering protective and maladaptive possibilities

Human Development

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 49-59

  Recchia, Holly E ^a   Wainryb, Cecilia ^b  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFLICT; COPING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; JUVENILE; POLITICAL CONFLICT; POLITICS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL CHANGE; VICTIM; VIOLENCE; WAR;

EID: 79955121969     PISSN: 0018716X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000325371     Document Type: Review

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