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Child soldiers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

David Skuse
David Skuse*
Affiliation:
Behavioural and Brain Sciences Unit, Institute of Child Health, London, UK, email [email protected]
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Abstract

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Over the past 20 years the number of children recruited into armed conflict, as combatants, spies, labourers and sex slaves, has increased substantially (Wessells, 2009). In this issue, we focus on the research that has been done in recent years to identify the extent of this problem and, in particular, the efforts that are being made to discover the most effective ways of rehabilitating former child soldiers into society.

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Thematic Papers — Introduction
Information
International Psychiatry , Volume 7 , Issue 3 , July 2010 , pp. 54 - 55
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 2010

References

Wessells, M. (2009) Supporting the mental health and psychosocial wellbeing of former child soldiers. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 48, 587–590.Google Scholar
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