Coping with twins discordant for intellectual disabilities: The mothers' view

Twin Research

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 227-230

  De Vos, Bernice ^a   Jacobs, Nele ^b   Vandemeulebroecke, Lieve ^c   Derom, Catherine ^a   Fryns, Jean Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; MALE; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; TWIN DISCORDANCE; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; GENETICS; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MOTHER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TWINS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMAN; MENTAL RETARDATION; MOTHERS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TWINS; HUMANS;

EID: 0036018988     PISSN: 13690523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/136905202320227899     Document Type: Article

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