Social support, needs, and stress in urban families with children enrolled in an early intervention program

Infant-Toddler Intervention

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 239-257

  Baxter, Abigail ^a,b   Kahn, James V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; POVERTY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS; SUPPORT GROUP; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0032879713     PISSN: 10535586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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