Assessing the Support Needs of Adopted Children and Their Families: Building secure new lives

Assessing the Support Needs of Adopted Children and Their Families: Building secure new lives

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1-176

  Miller, Liza Bingley ^a   Bentovim, Arnon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203965191     Document Type: Book

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