‘First steps in parenting’: Developing nurturing parenting skills in mothers and fathers in pregnancy and the postnatal period

Keeping The Baby in Mind: Infant Mental Health in Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 52-62

  Parr, Mel ^a   Joyce, Catherine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b Inst of Personnel and Development   (United Kingdom)

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