Exposure to war trauma and PTSD among parents and children in the Gaza strip

European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry - Tập 17 Số 4 - Trang 191-199 - 2008
Abdel Aziz Mousa Thabet1, A. Abu Tawahina1, Eyad El Sarraj1, Panos Vostanis2
1Gaza Community Mental Health, Programme, Gaza, Palestine, Israel
2University of Leicester, Greenwood Institute of Child Health, Leicester, UK

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