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le Roux, Johann; Smith, Cheryl Sylvia – Adolescence, 1998
Attempts to identify the psychological characteristics that predispose certain children to run away and to survive, often for long periods, on the streets of South Africa. Examines vulnerability and resilience as well as social conditions that mediate the psychological predisposition to become a street child. (Author/GCP)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Welfare, Children, Conditioning