Sometimes you don't feel ready to be an adult or a mom: The experience of adolescent pregnancy

Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 7-16

  Lesser, Janna ^a   Anderson, Nancy L R ^a   Koniak Griffin, Deborah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescent mothers; Ethnography; Maternal role; Prenatal classes

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY; ARTICLE; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; MENTAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; MOTHER; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; ROLE PLAYING;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; CURRICULUM; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMANS; MOTHERS; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY IN ADOLESCENCE; PRENATAL CARE; ROLE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0031598635     PISSN: 10736077     EISSN: 17446171     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-6171.1998.tb00425.x     Document Type: Article

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