Parent-child relationships and the verbal information pathway to fear in children: Two preliminary experiments

Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 473-486

  Field, Andy P ^a   Ball, Jess E ^a   Kawycz, Nicola J ^a   Moore, Harriett ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Childhood anxiety; Information processing; Parental behaviour

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FATHER CHILD RELATION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NEGLECT; PARENTAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREAT;

EID: 34347400225     PISSN: 13524658     EISSN: 14691833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1352465807003736     Document Type: Article

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