The relationship between adult cancer patients' adjustment to the illness and that of their parents

Families, Systems and Health

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 5-17

  Gilbar, Ora ^a   Refaeli, Ronit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTMENT; ADULT; ANXIETY; CANCER PATIENT; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; ILLNESS BEHAVIOR; MALE; PARANOIA; PSYCHOSIS; REVIEW; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 0034115773     PISSN: 10917527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/h0091850     Document Type: Review

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