A stepped-care model of post-disaster child and adolescent mental health service provision

European Journal of Psychotraumatology

Volumn 5, Issue SUPPL, 2014, Pages

  McDermott, Brett M ^a   Cobham, Vanessa E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adolescent; Child; Disaster planning; Mental health services

Indexed keywords

EID: 84963735288     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20008066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/ejpt.v5.24294     Document Type: Article

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