GENETIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL INFLUENCES ON WELLNESS, RESILIENCE, AND PSYCHOPATHOLOGY A Family-Based Approach for Promotion, Prevention, and Intervention
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It is a difficult job for a child to grow up. This job comes with few choices. Your genetic makeup has been determined; you do not get to choose your parents or how many brothers and sisters you will have. You do not get to choose your environment—for example, the town in which you will live, the school to which you will go, and, in most instances, the peer group to which you are exposed. Similarly, you typically do not get to choose whether you will be raised in a religious environment, whether you will be encouraged to play sports, what languages you will be taught, or whether you will be offered
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تاریخ انتشار 2008