The parent's capacity to treat the child as a psychological agent: Constructs, measures and implications for developmental psychopathology: Topic review

Social Development

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 737-754

  Sharp, Carla ^a   Fonagy, Peter ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Developmental psychopathology; Maternal mind mindedness; Reflective functioning, parental mentalizing

Indexed keywords

EID: 47649112762     PISSN: 0961205X     EISSN: 14679507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9507.2007.00457.x     Document Type: Article

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