Child Disaster Mental Health Services: a Review of the System of Care, Assessment Approaches, and Evidence Base for Intervention

Betty Pfefferbaum; Carol S. North

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Child Disaster Mental Health Services: a Review of the System of Care, Assessment Approaches, and Evidence Base for Intervention

Betty Pfefferbaum

Carol S. North

Current Psychiatry Reports Vol. 18 No. 1 · Springer Science and Business Media LLC

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Betty Pfefferbaum

From the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City (B.P.); and the Altshuler Center for Education and Research, Metrocare Services, and the Division of Trauma and Disaster, Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center — both in Dallas (C.S.N.).

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Carol S. North

From the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City (B.P.); and the Altshuler Center for Education and Research, Metrocare Services, and the Division of Trauma and Disaster, Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center — both in Dallas (C.S.N.).

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Betty Pfefferbaum, Carol S. North (2015). Child Disaster Mental Health Services: a Review of the System of Care, Assessment Approaches, and Evidence Base for Intervention. Current Psychiatry Reports, 18(1). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11920-015-0647-0

Child Disaster Mental Health Services: a Review of the System of Care, Assessment Approaches, and Evidence Base for Intervention

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