Mother-Child Emotion Dialogues: A Window into the Psychological Secure Base

Emotion in Memory and Development: Biological, Cognitive, and Social Considerations

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Oppenheim, David ^a   Koren Karie, Nina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Autobiographical memory; Children; Dialogue; Mothers; Parents; Stressful events

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856632531     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195326932.003.0006     Document Type: Chapter

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