Boosting strategies: Enhancing the self-esteem of individuals with catastrophic illnesses and injuries

Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 24-32

  Dewar, Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEFENSE MECHANISM; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LIFE EVENT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORALITY; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CARE; SELF CONCEPT; SELF HELP; TERMINAL DISEASE;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CATASTROPHIC ILLNESS; COMMUNICATION; DEFENSE MECHANISMS; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORALE; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CARE; SELF CONCEPT; SELF-HELP GROUPS;

EID: 0037366097     PISSN: 02793695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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