Psychological disturbances, poverty and hopelessness of war-traumatized adolescents in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina

Child Development and Child Poverty

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 229-255

  Hasanović, Mevludin ^a   Haračić, Edin ^b   Ahmetspahić, Šemsa ^b   Kurtović, Sanja ^b   Haračić, Hajrudin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY CLINICAL CENTER TUZLA   (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TUZLA   (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

^c Primary Health Care Center 'Dom zdravlja' Teocak   (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

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