Preventive Interventions: Parenting and the Home Environment

The Oxford Handbook of Poverty and Child Development

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Huberman, Harris S ^a   Mendelsohn, Alan L ^b  

^a University Hospital of Brooklyn   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Early child development; Early literacy; Parent education; Parent child interaction; Parenting newsletter; Parenting programs; Primary care based; Videotaped interaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924567511     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199769100.013.0029     Document Type: Chapter

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