Forbidden Suffering: The Pollyanna Syndrome of the Disabled and Their Families

Family Process

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 431-435

  Saetersdal, Barbro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DISABLED PERSON; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; NOTE; PAIN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DISABLED PERSONS; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; PAIN; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 0031301748     PISSN: 00147370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1545-5300.1997.00431.x     Document Type: Article

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