The role of parental and extrafamilial social support in the psychosocial adjustment of children with a chronically ill father

Behavior Modification

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 409-432

  Kotchick, Beth A ^b   Summers, Peter ^b   Forehand, Rex ^a   Steele, Ric G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FAMILY LIFE; FEMALE; HEMOPHILIA; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD OF IMPAIRED PARENTS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHRONIC DISEASE; FATHERS; FEMALE; HEMOPHILIA A; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; SICK ROLE; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0030865228     PISSN: 01454455     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/01454455970214002     Document Type: Article

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