Trauma sequelae and cortisol levels in women exposed to intimate partner violence

Psychodynamic Psychiatry

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 247-276

  Basu, Archana ^a   Levendosky, Alytia A ^a   Lonstein, Joseph S ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; METABOLISM; PARTNER VIOLENCE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SECRETION (PROCESS); SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; YOUNG ADULT; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS; PSYCHOLOGY; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPOUSE ABUSE; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84880203511     PISSN: 21622590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/pdps.2013.41.2.247     Document Type: Article

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