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The burden on a family having a child with special needs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 June 2014

Michael Fitzgerald ,
Brigid Butler  and
Anthony Kinsella
Michael Fitzgerald
Affiliation:
Department of Child Psychiatry, St. James's Hospital, Dublin 8
Brigid Butler
Affiliation:
St. John of God Community Services, St. Teresa's, Tallaght, Dublin 24
Anthony Kinsella
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Dublin Institute of Technology, Kevin Street, Dublin 8
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Keywords

Psychosocial Stresschildren with special needs.
Type
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Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , September 1990 , pp. 109 - 113
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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