Coping With Violence: A Comprehensive Framework and Implications for Understanding Resilience

Trauma, Violence, and Abuse

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 209-221

  Boxer, Paul ^a   Sloan Power, Elizabeth ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

community violence; domestic violence; violence exposure

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; AGGRESSION; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COMMUNITY VIOLENCE; COPING BEHAVIOR; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL STRESS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REVIEW; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TIME; VIOLENCE; VIOLENCE EXPOSURE;

COMMUNITY VIOLENCE; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; VIOLENCE EXPOSURE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; AGGRESSION; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHOPATHOLOGY; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME; VIOLENCE;

EID: 84879986002     PISSN: 15248380     EISSN: 15528324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1524838013487806     Document Type: Review

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