Counselling Breast Cancer Patients: A specialist nurse service

Counselling Psychology Quarterly

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1988, Pages 25-34

  Baum, Michael ^c   Greer, Steven ^a  

^a ROYAL MARSDEN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b Royal Marsden Hospital   (United Kingdom)

^c KING S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTMENT; ADULT; BREAST; CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUNSELING; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; NURSE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

EID: 0024268261     PISSN: 09515070     EISSN: 14693674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09515078808251418     Document Type: Article

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