Contextual analysis of coping: Implications for immigrants' mental health care

Issues in Mental Health Nursing

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 715-732

  Donnelly, Tam Truong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CANADA; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; HUMAN; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MENTAL STRESS; MIGRATION; POLITICAL SYSTEM; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; VIET NAM;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ALBERTA; COLONIALISM; CULTURE; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; HUMANS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VIETNAM;

EID: 0442297554     PISSN: 01612840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01612840290052848     Document Type: Article

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