The role of parents in the emergence, maintenance, and prevention of eating problems and disorders

Preventing Eating Disorders: A Handbook of Interventions and Special Challenges

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 44-62

  Graber, Julia A ^a   Archibald, Andrea Bastiani ^a   Brooks Gunn, Jeanne ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203778081-10     Document Type: Chapter

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