Protective factors for intergenerational transmission of trauma among second and third generation Holocaust survivors

Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 384-391

  Giladi, Lotem ^a   Bell, Terece S ^a  

^a ALLIANT INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

differentiation of self; family communication; Holocaust trauma; intergenerational patterns; secondary traumatic stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880892041     PISSN: 19429681     EISSN: 1942969X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0028455     Document Type: Article

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