Care for pastors: Learning from clergy and their spouses

Pastoral Psychology

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 563-581

  McMinn, Mark R ^a   Lish, R Allen ^b   Trice, Pamela D ^a   Root, Alicia M ^a   Gilbert, Nicole ^a   Yap, Adelene ^a  

^a WHEATON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Clergy; Clergy spouses; Coping; Marriage

Indexed keywords

EID: 22944479306     PISSN: 00312789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11089-005-4821-y     Document Type: Article

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