Parenting and Poverty: A Complex Interaction

Parenthood and Mental Health: A Bridge between Infant and Adult Psychiatry

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 337-348

  Tomlinson, Mark ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Malnutrition and non organic failure to thrive poor infant and child physical growth; Maternal depression provoking events and vulnerability factors; Parenting and determinants socio cultural, community, family and individual; Parenting and poverty complex interaction; Parenting and poverty immediate and direct consequences of poverty on infant and child development; Poverty number of people living in poverty unchanged; Poverty, parenting, depression and infant attachment; Upstream and downstream factors parenting particularly sensitive to psychosocial context

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879175414     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470660683.ch30     Document Type: Chapter

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