Parent Mentoring: An Innovative Approach to Adoption Support

Adoption and Fostering

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 27-38

  Archer, Caroline ^a   Gordon, Christine ^b  

^a Family Futures Consortium ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b Family Futures Consortium   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

adoption support; attachment disorganisation; developmental neurobiology; family narrative; language of trauma; parent mentoring; therapeutic re parenting

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248610405     PISSN: 03085759     EISSN: 1740469X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/030857590402800405     Document Type: Article

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