Associations Between Early Intervention Home Visits, Family Relationships and Competence for Mothers of Children with Developmental Disabilities.
<italic>Objectives</italic> To examine the association between intensity of home visits in early intervention (EI), perceived helpfulness of home visits in EI, and positive family relationships as predictors of maternal competence at age 3, as well as moderating effects of predictors, controlling fo...
| Published in: | Maternal & Child Health Journal Vol. 22; no. 4; pp. 599 - 608 |
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Springer Nature
Apr2018
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