Adjustment to cancer - Coping or personal transition?

Psycho-Oncology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-18

  Brennan, James ^a  

^a BRISTOL HAEMATOLOGY AND ONCOLOGY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADJUSTMENT; AROUSAL; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CANCER; CLINICAL FEATURE; COPING BEHAVIOR; DENIAL; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; HUMAN; MODEL; MOURNING; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHODYNAMICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOPATHY; RELIGION; REVIEW; SELF CONCEPT; SELF CONTROL; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STRESS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COGNITIVE SCIENCE; GRIEF; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0035136452     PISSN: 10579249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1099-1611(200101/02)10:1<1::AID-PON484>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Review

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