'Making it': The components and process of resilience among urban, African-American, single mothers

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 148-160

  Brodsky, Anne E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; FAMILY LIFE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NEGRO; POVERTY; RESPONSIBILITY; SINGLE PARENT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0032947387     PISSN: 00029432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/h0080417     Document Type: Article

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