Adaptation in families with adult children with mental retardation: Impact of family strengths and appraisal

Education and Training in Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 260-270

  Lustig, Daniel C ^a   Akey, Theresa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^b NONE

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