Why do children placed out-of-home because of parental substance abuse have less mental health problems than children placed for other reasons?

Children and Youth Services Review

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2010-2017

  Havnen, Karen Skaale ^a   Breivik, Kyrre ^a   Stormark, Kjell Morten ^a   Jakobsen, Reidar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Behavioral problems; Children; Mental health problems; Out of home care; Parental substance abuse; Prosocial behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052148151     PISSN: 01907409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2011.05.028     Document Type: Article

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