A Secure Base for Babies: Applying Attachment Concepts to the Infant Care Setting

Young Children

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 59-67

  Raikes, Helen ^a,b  

^a Gallup Inc   (United States)

^b Administration for Children and Families   (United States)

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