Adjusting to disfigurement: Processes involved in dealing with being visibly different

Clinical Psychology Review

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 663-682

  Thompson, Andrew ^a,c   Kent, Gerry ^b  

^a Sheffield Children's National Health Service Foundation Trust   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c Psychological Health Care   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adjustment; Body image; Disfigurement; Shame; Treatment

Indexed keywords

BODY IMAGE; BURN; CLEFT PALATE; COGNITION; COPING BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL FACTOR; DATA BASE; DEFORMITY; EMOTION; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; METHODOLOGY; NURSING; PSYCHOLOGY; REVIEW; SELF ESTEEM; SHAME; SKIN DISEASE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; BODY IMAGE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CRANIOFACIAL ABNORMALITIES; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; FACIAL INJURIES; HUMANS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 0034980053     PISSN: 02727358     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0272-7358(00)00056-8     Document Type: Review

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