Studying parenting representations as a window to parents' internal working model of caregiving

Parenting Representations: Theory, Research, and Clinical Implications

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 3-40

  Mayseless, Ofra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

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EID: 34249049583     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511499869.002     Document Type: Chapter

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