"Nothing really matters": Emotional numbing as a link between trauma exposure and callousness in delinquent youth

Journal of Traumatic Stress

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 272-279

  Kerig, Patricia K ^a   Bennett, Diana C ^a   Thompson, Mamie ^a   Becker, Stephen P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; APATHY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY; JUVENILE DELINQUENCY; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOPATHY; QUESTIONNAIRE; UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; APATHY; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUVENILE DELINQUENCY; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; UNITED STATES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84862769593     PISSN: 08949867     EISSN: 15736598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jts.21700     Document Type: Article

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