A Responsive Parenting Intervention: The Optimal Timing Across Early Childhood for Impacting Maternal Behaviors and Child Outcomes

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1335-1353

  Landry, Susan H ^a   Smith, Karen E ^b   Swank, Paul R ^a   Guttentag, Cathy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

child outcomes; early intervention; parenting; responsiveness

Indexed keywords

EID: 54849412267     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0013030     Document Type: Article

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