How valid are the results of the St. Petersburg-USA Orphanage intervention study and what do they mean for the world's children?

Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 263-270

  Crockenberg, Susan C ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAREGIVER; CHILD CARE; EDUCATION; EMOTION; FEMALE; FOSTER CARE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; ORPHANAGE; ORPHANED CHILD; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOSOCIAL DISORDER; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIALIZATION; UNITED STATES;

CAREGIVERS; CHILD CARE; CHILD, ORPHANED; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FOSTER HOME CARE; HUMANS; INFANT; INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES; MALE; ORPHANAGES; PSYCHOSOCIAL DEPRIVATION; REACTIVE ATTACHMENT DISORDER; RUSSIA; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIALIZATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 56849117068     PISSN: 0037976X     EISSN: 15405834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5834.2008.00496.x     Document Type: Note

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