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Chapter 8 - Assessment of parents for the court

from Section 2 - Comprehensive assessment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2015

Andrea Reupert
Affiliation:
Monash University, Victoria
Darryl Maybery
Affiliation:
Monash University, Victoria
Joanne Nicholson
Affiliation:
Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center
Michael Göpfert
Affiliation:
University of Liverpool
Mary V. Seeman
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
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Parental Psychiatric Disorder
Distressed Parents and their Families
, pp. 74 - 84
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2015

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