Parents' experience of seeking help for children with mental health problems

Advances in Mental Health

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 131-142

  Boulter, Erica ^a   Rickwood, Debra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Children; Help seeking; Mental health problems; Parental help seeking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883676498     PISSN: 18387357     EISSN: 18374905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5172/jamh.2013.11.2.131     Document Type: Article

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