The impact of deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan on military children: A review of the literature

International Review of Psychiatry

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 210-217

  White, Claire J ^a   De Burgh, H Thomas ^b   Fear, Nicola T ^c   Iversen, Amy C ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c Royal Centre for Defence Medicine   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFGHANISTAN; ARTICLE; CHILD PARENT RELATION; DEMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IRAQ; MEDLINE; MILITARY DEPLOYMENT; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCINFO; SOLDIER;

AFGHAN CAMPAIGN 2001-; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; IRAQ WAR, 2003 -; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PARENTS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79955550891     PISSN: 09540261     EISSN: 13691627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/09540261.2011.560143     Document Type: Article

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