Is it That They Won't Do it, or is it That They Can't?: Executive Functioning and Children Who Have been Fostered and Adopted

Adoption and Fostering

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 44-53

  Lansdown, Richard ^a   Burnell, Alan ^b   Allen, Marion ^b  

^a Family Futures Consortium   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

adoption; attachment; executive functioning; fostering

Indexed keywords

EID: 42949156875     PISSN: 03085759     EISSN: 1740469X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/030857590703100208     Document Type: Article

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