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Parental Reactions to Birth of a Handicapped Child

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Jim Stevenson
Affiliation:
Academic Department of Child Psychiatry
Philip Graham
Affiliation:
Academic Department of Child Psychiatry
Steven Dorner
Affiliation:
Department of Psychological Medicine, Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London WC1
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Type
Correspondence
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1978 

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