Mental Health Problems among Orphanage Children in the Gaza Strip

Adoption and Fostering

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 54-62

  Thabet, Lamia ^a   Thabet, Abdel Aziz Mousa ^b  

^a Al Doura Paediatric Hospital   (Israel)

^b Child and Adolescent Psychiatry   (Israel)

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EID: 34548430914     PISSN: 03085759     EISSN: 1740469X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/030857590703100209     Document Type: Article

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