Children's Mental Health: The Gap Between What We Know and What We Do

American Psychologist

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 1988, Pages 800-807

  Saxe, Leonard ^a   Cross, Theodore ^a   Silverman, Nancy ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD; EGO DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; NOTE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

CHILD; HUMAN; MENTAL DISORDERS; PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 0024102835     PISSN: 0003066X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0003-066X.43.10.800     Document Type: Article

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