Psychiatric Aspects of HIV/AIDS

Rutter's Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Fifth Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 945-955

  Havens, Jennifer F ^a   Mellins, Claude Ann ^b,c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotional and behavioral disorder in HIV infected children adolescents; Epidemiological overview of HIV epidemic as it affects children adolescents; Mental health issues in children living with parental HIV illness; Perinatal HIV infection in children adolescents; Psychotherapeutic issues in helping perinatally infected children cope with HIV

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889361583     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444300895.ch58     Document Type: Chapter

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