Investigating the impact of early institutional deprivation on development: Background and research strategy of the english and Romanian Adoptees (Era) study

Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-20

  Rutter, Michael ^a   Sonuga Barke, Edmund J ^a   Castle, Jennifer ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOPTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOMETRY; RESEARCH; ROMANIA; STATISTICS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADOPTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; MALE; PSYCHOMETRICS; RESEARCH; ROMANIA;

EID: 77955075307     PISSN: 0037976X     EISSN: 15405834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5834.2010.00548.x     Document Type: Article

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