African American grandmothers' perceptions of caregiver concerns associated with rearing adolescent grandchildren

Archives of Psychiatric Nursing

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 73-80

  Brown, Emma J ^a   Jemmott, Loretta Sweet ^b   Outlaw, Freida H ^b   Wilson, Greer ^c   Howard, Monique ^b   Curtis, Saleema ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c Greer and Company Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD REARING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD REARING; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONS; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ENGLAND;

EID: 0034169558     PISSN: 08839417     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0883-9417(00)80022-9     Document Type: Article

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