Good enough adoptive parenting - The adopted child and selfobject relations

Clinical Social Work Journal

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 57-76

  Noy Sharav, Dorit ^a  

^a NONE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Adoption; Adoptive parenting; Assessment; Couple evaluation; Selfobject

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036248482     PISSN: 00911674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1014226428266     Document Type: Review

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