A place for attachment theory in child life programming: The potential to assess the quality of parent-child relationships

Child and Youth Care Forum

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 195-207

  Turner, Joan C ^a  

^a MOUNT SAINT VINCENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Assessment; Attachment theory; Child life; Hospitalization

Indexed keywords

EID: 18244406020     PISSN: 10531890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10566-005-3469-0     Document Type: Article

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