Identifying therapeutic action in an attachment-centered intervention with high risk families

Clinical Social Work Journal

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 61-72

  Steele, Miriam ^a   Murphy, Anne ^b   Steele, Howard ^a  

^a NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attachment theory and research; Infants; Intergenerational influences; Intervention; Trauma

Indexed keywords

EID: 76649124856     PISSN: 00911674     EISSN: 15733343     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10615-009-0257-6     Document Type: Article

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