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Family Influence on Adolescent Treatment Outcomes

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Social ecological models have often been utilized as a framework in which the level of function and recovery of health-impaired children may be considered in relation to environmental settings and associated variables (Bronfenbrenner, 1979; Brown, 2002; Kazak, 1989).

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Field, C., Duchoslav, R. (2009). Family Influence on Adolescent Treatment Outcomes. In: O'Donohue, W. (eds) Behavioral Approaches to Chronic Disease in Adolescence. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-87687-0_5

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