Homeless Children and Stress: An Empirical Study

Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 29-40

  Davey, Tim L ^a  

^a Univ Tennessee Coll of Social Wk   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Homelessness; Research; Stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032338488     PISSN: 10530789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022914614694     Document Type: Article

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