An empirical study of parents’ reaction to the diagnosis of congential heart disease in infants

Social Work in Health Care

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 67-79

  Cohn, Joan Kirschenbaum ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; ARTICLE; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; COPING BEHAVIOR; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMOTION; FAMILY COUNSELING; FEAR; HUMAN; INFANT; NEWBORN; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL WORK; SOCIAL WORKER;

ADULT; CRISIS INTERVENTION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PARENTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH; SOCIAL WORK;

EID: 0029778224     PISSN: 00981389     EISSN: 1541034X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J010v23n02_04     Document Type: Article

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