Acute Life Stresses

Rutter's Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Fifth Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 392-406

  Sandberg, Seija ^a   Rutter, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acute life stresses and chronic adversity; Concept of adjustment disorder; Historical background; Implications for clinical practice; Individual differences in exposure to stressful life events; Individual differences in response to stressful life events; Looking into the future; Mechanisms moderating and mediating stress responses; Risk effects of life events

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889287634     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444300895.ch26     Document Type: Chapter

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