II. Development of adopted children with histories of early adversity

Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 31-61

  Juffer, Femmie ^a   Palacios, Jesús ^a   Le Mare, Lucy ^a   Sonuga Barke, Edmund J S ^a   Tieman, Wendy ^a   Bakermans Kranenburg, Marian J ^a   Vorria, Panayiota ^a   van Ijzendoorn, Marinus H ^a   Verhulst, Frank C ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 84857776296     PISSN: 0037976X     EISSN: 15405834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5834.2011.00627.x     Document Type: Article

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