The impact of parent, child, and therapist mental representations on attachment-based intervention with prepubertal children

Clinical Social Work Journal

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 73-84

  Goodman, Geoff ^a  

^a LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attachment behavior; Client characteristics; Elementary school students; Intervention; Parent child relations; Parental characteristics; Therapist characteristics

Indexed keywords

EID: 76649112044     PISSN: 00911674     EISSN: 15733343     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10615-009-0238-9     Document Type: Article

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