Psychological stress in adoptive parents of special-needs children

Child Welfare

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 151-171

  McGlone, Katalina ^b   Santos, Linda ^b   Kazama, Lynne ^b   Fong, Rowena ^b   Mueller, Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b University of Hawaii ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOPTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; FAMILY; FEMALE; HANDICAPPED CHILD; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; PARENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL WORK; UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOPTION; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISABLED CHILDREN; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTS; SOCIAL WORK; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036510865     PISSN: 00094021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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