Teacher-delivered resilience-focused intervention in schools with traumatized children following the second Lebanon war

Journal of Traumatic Stress

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 309-316

  Wolmer, Leo ^a   Hamiel, Daniel ^a   Barchas, Jack D ^b   Slone, Michelle ^c   Laor, Nathaniel ^b,c,d  

^a TEL AVIV COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER   (Israel)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CHILD; COPING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISRAEL; LEBANON; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; UNIVERSITY; WAR;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; CHILD; FACULTY; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; LEBANON; MALE; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; WAR;

EID: 80054698234     PISSN: 08949867     EISSN: 15736598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jts.20638     Document Type: Article

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