Prospects for a positive psychology of rehabilitation

Rehabilitation Psychology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 305-311

  Dunn, Dana S ^a   Dougherty, Sarah B ^a  

^a MORAVIAN COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Coping with disability; Experience of disability; Human strengths; Positive models of disability; Positive psychology

Indexed keywords

COPING BEHAVIOR; DISABILITY; HUMAN; LIFE SATISFACTION; PHILOSOPHY; POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STRENGTH;

EID: 24944433011     PISSN: 00905550     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0090-5550.50.3.305     Document Type: Review

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