Delivering Diagnoses: Parents as Translators and Withholders of Children's Mental Health Diagnoses.
There is a lack of research on how mental health diagnoses are delivered and explained to children and the effectiveness of these strategies. This qualitative study examines how emerging adults recall the delivery of mental health diagnoses in childhood and how they suggest these diagnoses should be...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Child & Family Studies Vol. 26; no. 7; pp. 1958 - 1970 |
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Jul2017
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