Adoptive couples: Communication and changes made in openness levels

Family Relations

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 223-229

  Mendenhall, Tai J ^b   Grotevant, Harold D ^c   McRoy, Ruth G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Adoption; Circumflex model; Clinical rating scale (CRS); Communication

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030120023     PISSN: 01976664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/585294     Document Type: Article

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