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Shaping children's internal working models through mother–child dialogues: the importance of resolving past maternal trauma

Nina Koren-Karie School of Social Work and Center for the study of Child Development, University of Haifa, IsraelCorrespondence[email protected]
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David Oppenheim Department of Psychology and center for the study of child Development, University of Haifa, Israel
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Rachel Getzler-Yosef School of social work, University of haifa, Israel
Pages 465-483 | Published online: 17 Nov 2008

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