While My Sister Went to the Disco, I Went to Hospital and Met the Doctors: Narrative as a Measure of the Psychological Integration of the Experience of Cancer in Childhood and Adolescence

Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 489-502

  Di Gallo, Alain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Adjustment; Childhood cancer; Coping; Integration; Narrative; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILDHOOD CANCER; COPING BEHAVIOR; FAMILY LIFE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SIBLING; SOCIAL ASPECT;

EID: 0142054886     PISSN: 13591045     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/13591045030084006     Document Type: Article

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