Representations of parent-child alliances in children's family drawings

Social Development

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 440-459

  Leon, Kim ^a   Wallace, Tamar ^a   Rudy, Duane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Family drawings; Parent child alliances; Peer relationships; Representations

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548092432     PISSN: 0961205X     EISSN: 14679507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9507.2007.00392.x     Document Type: Article

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