Parental Reflective Functioning: An Introduction of Mentalization Based Approach in Parenting (Part Three)

Subject Areas : روان درمانگری

Parisa Sadat SeyedMousavi ¹ , Farima Naghash ²

1 - Shahid Beheshti University
2 - MA in Family Clinical Psychology Shahid Beheshti University

Received: 2021-11-24 Accepted : 2021-11-24 Published : 2021-03-21

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