Psychological treatments for orphans and vulnerable children affected by traumatic events and chronic adversity in Sub-Saharan Africa

JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 314, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 511-512

  Ventevogel, Peter ^a   Spiegel, Paul ^a  

^a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AGE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DISEASE SEVERITY; GENDER; HOPE; HUMAN; MALNUTRITION; NOTE; ORPHANED CHILD; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TRAUMA FOCUSED COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIOLENCE; VULNERABLE POPULATION; FEMALE; MALE; PROCEDURES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

COGNITIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 84938787985     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2015.8383     Document Type: Note

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