Prevention and Early Intervention Programs for Children and Adolescents

The Oxford Handbook of Traumatic Stress Disorders

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Brymer, Melissa J ^a   Steinberg, Alan M ^a   Watson, Patricia J ^a,b   Pynoos, Robert S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Children and adolescents; Early intervention; Prevention; Resilience; Traumatic stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868378337     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195399066.013.0025     Document Type: Chapter

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