Expressed emotion in child psychiatry: A risk factor for psychopathology and treatment resistance?

Current Opinion in Psychiatry

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 241-246

  Weintraub, Philippe ^a,b   Wamboldt, Marianne Z ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTHMA; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CHILD PSYCHIATRY; DEPRESSION; EMOTION; FAMILY; FEEDING DISORDER; HUMAN; JUVENILE DIABETES MELLITUS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MENTAL DISEASE; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RELAPSE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0029997942     PISSN: 09517367     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001504-199607000-00002     Document Type: Review

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