The use of a coping strategy focused support group for carers of dementia sufferers

Counselling Psychology Quarterly

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1992, Pages 337-348

  Morris, Robin G ^a   Woods, Robert T ^a   Davies, Kath S ^a   Berry, Jenny ^b   Morris, Lorna W ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Bromley District Health Authority ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY; COMPREHENSION; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; HUMAN; PROBLEM SOLVING; VOLUNTEER;

EID: 0027090290     PISSN: 09515070     EISSN: 14693674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09515079208254479     Document Type: Article

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