Post traumatic stress disorder

Rutter's Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Sixth Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 806-821

  Yule, William ^a   Smith, Patrick ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acute stress; Assessment; Cognitive models; Debriefing; PTSD; TF CBT; Trauma; Treatment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84952334032     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118381953.ch59     Document Type: Chapter

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