Causal attributions about mental illness: Relationship to family functioning

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 282-295

  Robinson, Elizabeth A R ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; FAMILY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MALE; MANIC DEPRESSIVE PSYCHOSIS; MENTAL DISEASE; RELIGION; SCHIZOIDISM; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; ADOLESCENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS;

EID: 0029658091     PISSN: 00029432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/h0080179     Document Type: Article

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