Divorcing parents: Guidelines for promoting children's adjustment

Child and Family Behavior Therapy

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 1-27

  Freeman, Kurt A ^c   Adams, Christina D ^b   Drabman, Ronald S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE

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EID: 0032349109     PISSN: 07317107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J019v20v03_01     Document Type: Article

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