Childhood maltreatment in adult offspring of Portuguese war veterans with and without PTSD

European Journal of Psychotraumatology

Volumn 5, Issue SUPPL, 2014, Pages

  Dias, Aida ^a,b   Sales, Luisa ^b   Cardoso, Rui M ^c   Kleber, Rolf ^a,d  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^d ArQ Research Foundation   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Abuse; Intergenerational transmission; Neglect; Offspring; Portugal; PTSD; War

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905468601     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20008066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/ejpt.v5.20198     Document Type: Article

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