Behavioral Outcomes for Substance-Exposed Adopted Children: Fourteen Years Postadoption

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 11-19

  Crea, Thomas M ^a   Barth, Richard P ^b   Guo, Shenyang ^c   Brooks, Devon ^d  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

adoption; behavioral outcomes; foster care; growth curve modeling; prenatal substance exposure

Indexed keywords

ADOPTED CHILD; ADOPTION; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOSTER CARE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUBSTANCE ABUSE;

EID: 43149124188     PISSN: 00029432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0002-9432.78.1.11     Document Type: Article

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