Three-year-olds' attachment play narratives and their associations with internalizing problems

Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 249-257

  Miljkovitch, Raphaële ^a   Pierrehumbert, Blaise ^b   Halfon, Olivier ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS OUEST NANTERRE LA DÉFENSE   (France)

^b LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR CHECKLIST; CHILD CARE; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; FATHER; GENDER; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MOTHER; NARRATIVE; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; PLAY; PREDICTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMICS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 34548220902     PISSN: 10633995     EISSN: 10990879     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpp.535     Document Type: Article

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