Clinical advice to courts on children's contact with their parents following parental separation

Child and Adolescent Mental Health

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 40-46

  Weir, Kirk ^a   Sturge, Claire ^a  

^a Child Adolescent and Family Consultation Clinic   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASE REPORT; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD CARE; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CHILD WELFARE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONFLICT; COUNSELING; COURT; CUSTODY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EXPERIENCE; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; GRANDPARENT; HUMAN; MALE; MARRIAGE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MEDICAL EXPERT; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 33644870296     PISSN: 1475357X     EISSN: 14753588     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-3588.2005.00385_1.x     Document Type: Review

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