Family-level emotional climate and its impact on the flexibility of relationship representations

Attachment and Family Systems: Conceptual, Empirical, and Therapeutic Relatedness

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 31-61

  Talbot, Jean ^a   McHale, James ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 4043070658     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203782699     Document Type: Editorial

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