Mentoring Relationship Quality and Maltreated Children's Coping.
Coping strategies are believed to protect against the harmful effects of maltreatment on children's psychosocial outcomes. Caregivers are thought to be critical in helping children develop adaptive coping strategies, yet many maltreated children have poor and/or insecure relationships with their par...
| Publicado en: | American Journal of Community Psychology Vol. 60; no. 1/2; pp. 229 - 242 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Sep2017
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