Challenging childhoods: Young people's accounts of 'getting by' in families with substance use problems

Childhood

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 461-479

  Backett Milburn, Kathryn ^a   Wilson, Sarah ^a   Bancroft, Angus ^a   Cunningham Burley, Sarah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Challenging childhoods; Families; Qualitative study; Resilience; Substance misuse

Indexed keywords

EID: 57649197967     PISSN: 09075682     EISSN: 14617013     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0907568208097202     Document Type: Article

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