Mentoring youth with psychiatric disorders: The impact on child and parent functioning

Child and Family Behavior Therapy

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 43-58

  Jent, Jason F ^a   Niec, Larissa N ^a  

^a CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Child behavior; Mentoring; Parent child relationship; Parenting stress; Social support

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748552383     PISSN: 07317107     EISSN: 1545228X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J019v28n03_03     Document Type: Article

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