When Jack Fell Down... Jill Came Tumbling After: Siblings in the Web of Illness and Disability

MCN The American Journal of Maternal Child Nursing

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 267-273

  Fleitas, Joan ^a  

^a FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Intervention studies; Sibling relations

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HANDICAPPED CHILD; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SIBLING RELATION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISABLED CHILDREN; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVENTION STUDIES; MALE; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; SIBLING RELATIONS; SICK ROLE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0034267523     PISSN: 0361929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005721-200009000-00010     Document Type: Article

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