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Original Articles

I’ve made that little bit of difference to this child”: Therapeutic parent’s experiences of trials and triumphs in therapeutic children’s homes

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Pages 256-278 | Received 22 Nov 2019, Accepted 04 Sep 2020, Published online: 06 Oct 2020

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