Children of mentally ill parents-A pilot study of a group intervention program

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 6, Issue OCT, 2015, Pages

  Christiansen, Hanna ^a   Anding, Jana ^a   Schrott, Bastian ^a   Röhrle, Bernd ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Children; Intervention; Mentally ill parents; Prevention; Transgenerational transmission mental disorder

Indexed keywords

EID: 84947273632     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01494     Document Type: Article

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