Trauma transmission through perceived parental burden among Holocaust survivors offspring and grandchildren

Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 420-429

  Letzter Pouw, Sonia E ^a   Shrira, Amit ^b   Ben Ezra, Menachem ^b   Palgi, Yuval ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Holocaust; Holocaust salience; intergenerational transmission; parental burden; posttraumatic symptoms

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904384308     PISSN: 19429681     EISSN: 1942969X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0033741     Document Type: Article

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