Improving mother-child interaction in low-income Turkish-Dutch families: A study of mechanisms mediating improvements resulting from participating in a home-based preschool intervention program

Infant and Child Development

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 323-340

  Van Tuijl, Cathy ^a   Leseman, Paul P M ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Early educational intervention program; Home based program; Mediating mechanisms; Mother child interaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 10244240616     PISSN: 15227227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/icd.363     Document Type: Article

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