Psychopathology as adaptive development along distinctive pathways

Development and Psychopathology

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 749-779

  Fischer, Kurt W ^a   Ayoub, Catherine ^b   Singh, Ilina ^b   Noam, Gil ^b   Maraganore, Andronicki ^b   Raya, Pamela ^b  

^a HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; AUTISM; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MOOD DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOSIS; REVIEW; SELF CONCEPT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; AUTISTIC DISORDER; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE, SEXUAL; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION DISORDERS; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOOD DISORDERS; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; SELF CONCEPT;

EID: 0031217169     PISSN: 09545794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0954579497001429     Document Type: Article

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