Measuring posttraumatic stress reactions in children: A preliminary validation of the children's responses to trauma inventory

Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 192-204

  Alisic, Eva ^a   Kleber, Rolf J ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c Institute for Psychotrauma/Foundation Centrum '45   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Children; Measure; Posttraumatic stress; PTSD; Self report questionnaire; Trauma; Validation

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960933269     PISSN: 19361521     EISSN: 1936153X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19361521.2010.500979     Document Type: Article

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