Measuring mentalization in children and young people

Minding the Child: Mentalization-Based Interventions with Children, Young People and their Families

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 54-76

  Vrouva, Ioanna ^a   Target, Mary ^a   Ensink, Karin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

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EID: 84918897546     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203123003     Document Type: Chapter

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