Pathological withdrawl of refugee children seeking asylum in Sweden

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C :Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 309-317

  Hacking, Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

B. Lask; Learned helplessness; Pervasive refusal syndrome; Refugee children in Sweden; Seligman, Imitation Internalization

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649498185     PISSN: 13698486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsc.2010.10.001     Document Type: Article

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