Issues in the assessment of Children's coping in the context of mass trauma

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 272-279

  Pfefferbaum, Betty ^a,b   Noffsinger, Mary A ^b,c   Wind, Leslie H ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c Courtroom Sciences Inc ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

child coping; coping appraisal; coping assessment; coping effectiveness; coping self efficacy; disasters; mass trauma; social support; terrorism; trauma

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MASS DISASTER; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; RECALL; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS CASUALTY INCIDENTS; MENTAL RECALL; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 84864566261     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X12000702     Document Type: Article

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