Illness stories: Themes emerging through narrative

Social Work in Health Care

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 19-39

  Docherty, Deborah ^b   McColl, Mary Ann ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Chronic illness; Coping; Diagnosis event; Disability; Meaning; Narrative; Phenomenology; Qualitative research; Stress; Therapeutic relationship

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC DISEASE; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEATH; DIAGNOSIS; DISABILITY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EMOTION; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PHENOMENOLOGY; PHILOSOPHY; STRESS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NARRATION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SICK ROLE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0042344881     PISSN: 00981389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J010v37n01_02     Document Type: Article

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