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Are Mothers of School-Phobic Adolescents Overprotective?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Ian Berg
Affiliation:
Highlands Adolescent Unit, Scalebor Park Hospital, Burley-in-Wharfcdale, Yorkshire, and Department of Psychiatry, University of Leeds
Ralph McGuire
Affiliation:
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9AG

Extract

It has repeatedly been asserted, mainly on clinical evidence, that mothers of school-phobic children are overprotective, even when their youngsters are of secondary school age (Berg, 1970). The project reported in this paper was carried out to see if an objective method of assessment would support this view.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1974 

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