Toward a new agenda for rehabilitation and reintegration processes for child soldiers

Journal of Adolescent Health

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 3-4

  Derluyn, Ilse ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AGITATION; ANXIETY; BATTLE INJURY; CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE; CHILD SOLDIER; COMMUNITY REINTEGRATION; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; EDUCATION; FIGHTING; FOOD; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; OFFENDER; PEDIATRIC REHABILITATION; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; PSYCHOTRAUMA; RAPE; REFUGEE; SINGLE PARENT; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SOLDIER; TRAINING;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MILITARY PERSONNEL; WAR;

EID: 79959500286     PISSN: 1054139X     EISSN: 18791972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2011.05.006     Document Type: Editorial

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