Impact of Parental Psychiatric Disorder and Physical Illness

Rutter's Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Fifth Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 407-420

  Stein, Alan ^a   Ramchandani, Paul ^a   Murray, Lynne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brief review of main disorders considered; Clinical implications; Developmental or age specific effects; Future considerations; Gender; Overview and introduction to mechanisms

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889497567     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444300895.ch27     Document Type: Chapter

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