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ERIC Number: EJ523318
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1996
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ISSN: ISSN-0009-3920
The Effects of State Terrorism and Exile on Indigenous Guatemalan Refugee Children: A Mental Health Assessment and an Analysis of Children's Narratives.
Miller, Kenneth E.
Child Development, v67 n1 p89-106 Feb 1996
Examined the mental health and psychosocial development of 58 Guatemalan Mayan children living in 2 refugee camps in the Mexican state of Chiapas. Found only minimal evidence of psychological trauma among the children and a positive relationship between children's mental health and the health status (physical and mental) of their mothers. (MDM)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Depression (Psychology), Emotional Development, Foreign Countries, Health, Mental Health, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Refugees, Sex Differences, Social Development, Terrorism, Violence
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Guatemala; Maya (People); Mexico (Chiapas)
Note: This article is part of a special section on children and ethnic and political violence.