Marital and parent-child relationships in families with daughters who have eating disorders

Journal of Family Issues

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1201-1220

  Latzer, Yael ^a,b   Lavee, Yoav ^a   Gal, Sharon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b Rambam Health Care Campus ^*  (Israel)

Author keywords

Eating disorders; Marital quality; Parent child relationships

Indexed keywords

EID: 69149103101     PISSN: 0192513X     EISSN: 15525481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0192513X09334599     Document Type: Article

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