Treating Insecure and Disorganized Attachments in School-Aged Children

School Rampage Shootings and Other Youth Disturbances: EARLY PREVENTATIVE INTERVENTIONS

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 127-157

  Moss, Ellen ^a,b   Pascuzzo, Katherine ^a,c   Simard, Valerie ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b Centre for the Study of Attachment and the Family   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

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