When words just won't do: Introducing parental embodied mentalizing

Child Development Perspectives

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 173-180

  Shai, Dana ^a   Belsky, Jay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Body; Mentalizing; Nonverbal; Parent infant interaction; Parental embodied mentalizing

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961222777     PISSN: 17508592     EISSN: 17508606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1750-8606.2011.00181.x     Document Type: Article

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