The relationship between housing characteristics, emotional well-being and the personal empowerment of psychiatric consumer/survivors

Community Mental Health Journal

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 57-69

  Nelson, Geoffrey ^a   Hall, G Brent ^b   Walsh Bowers, Richard ^a  

^a WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONSUMER; EMOTION; FEMALE; HOUSING; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL PATIENT; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; WELLBEING;

EID: 0031967369     PISSN: 00103853     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1018764229147     Document Type: Article

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