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Peer Victimization and Internalizing Symptoms Among Post-Institutionalized, Internationally Adopted Youth

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This research was supported in part by National Institute of Health grants P50-MH079513, R01-MH044340, P50-MH052354, P50-MH069315, and P50-MH084051, as well as the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Psychopathology and Development. C. Pitula is supported by a doctoral fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Thanks to Annie Murray-Close and Dante Cicchetti for their comments during the preparation of this manuscript.

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  1. Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota, 51 East River Road, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA

    Clio E. Pitula, Kathleen M. Thomas, Nicki R. Crick & Megan R. Gunnar

  2. Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI, USA

    Jeffrey M. Armstrong & Marilyn J. Essex

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Pitula, C.E., Thomas, K.M., Armstrong, J.M. et al. Peer Victimization and Internalizing Symptoms Among Post-Institutionalized, Internationally Adopted Youth. J Abnorm Child Psychol 42, 1069–1076 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-014-9855-z

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