Exploring Mental Health and Development in Refugee Children Through Systematic Play Assessment.
To evaluate a standardized play observation as a measure of young children's mental health and development in a clinical and refugee population. We conducted individual play observations with 70 refugee children aged 3- to 6-years and compared them to a clinical group of 111 age-matched children reg...
| Publicado en: | Child Psychiatry & Human Development Vol. 56; no. 3; pp. 629 - 640 |
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Springer Nature
Jun2025
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