Openness: A critical component of special needs adoption

Child Welfare

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 637-651

  Silverstein, Deborah N ^a   Roszia, Sharon Kaplan ^a  

^a Kinship Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; HUMAN; INFANT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REVIEW; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ADOPTION; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; HUMANS; INFANT; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 0033191285     PISSN: 00094021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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