Linking child welfare and mental health using trauma-informed screening and assessment practices

Child Welfare

Volumn 90, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 129-147

  Conradi, Lisa ^a   Wherry, Jeffrey ^b   Kisiel, Cassandra ^c  

^a RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD WELFARE; DISASTER; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; VIOLENCE; WAR;

CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD WELFARE; DISASTERS; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MASS SCREENING; PSYCHOMETRICS; STRESS DISORDERS, TRAUMATIC; VIOLENCE; WAR;

EID: 84861116992     PISSN: 00094021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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