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Children’s coping and thriving: Not just in care

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 February 2016

Sarah Wise
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Abstract

This paper was commissioned for this issue of Children Australia to draw together developmental issues for children and young people in care.

Type
Section Two: Today’s tough issues and beyond – Coping and thriving: not just in care
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Children Australia , Volume 24 , Issue 4 , 1999 , pp. 18 - 28
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999

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