Children's Responses to Community Violence: The Roles of Avoidant and Confrontive Coping

Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 285-302

  Lang, Colleen M ^a   Brown, Elissa J ^b   Hodges, Ernest V E ^b   Chaplin, William F ^b  

^a Cognitive and Behavioral Consultants LLP ^*  (United States)

^b ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

adolescence; inner city youth; psychological adjustment; risk; stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869416936     PISSN: 19361521     EISSN: 1936153X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19361521.2012.719593     Document Type: Article

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