This article addresses itself to helping psychiatrically disturbed fathers from repeating their pathological pasts on their infant children (0-3). The mother-infant dyad is uniquely reached via the father so that the bonds of human attachment can be protected and/or preserved. This is paralleled by
Fathers' interactions with their high-risk infants
β Scribed by Dr. Tiffany Field
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1981
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 447 KB
- Volume
- 2
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0163-9641
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