Psychosocial development and behavior of mothers of failure-to-thrive children.
American Journal of OrthopsychiatryPublished 1 July 1975
Ernesto Pollitt, Aviva Weisel Eichler, Chee-Khoon Chan
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Results show that maternal behavior of the mothers of the failure-to-thrive groups, while showing no overt psychopathology, did differ substantially from that of the control group.
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The social development, emotional adaptation, and functioning of mothers of failure-to-thrive children, and of a group of matched controls were studied. Results show that maternal behavior of the mothers of the failure-to-thrive groups, while showing no overt psychopathology, did differ substantially from that of the control group.
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