Shifting Internal Parent-Child Representations among Caregivers of Teens with Serious Behavior Problems: An Attachment-Based Approach

Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 191-204

  Moretti, Marlene M ^a   Obsuth, Ingrid ^a,b   Mayseless, Ofra ^c   Scharf, Miri ^c  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

adolescence; manualized intervention; parent teen relationship; therapeutic change

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865232867     PISSN: 19361521     EISSN: 1936153X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19361521.2012.697104     Document Type: Article

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