As a young child's parent dies: Conceptualizing and constructing preventive interventions

Clinical Social Work Journal

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 499-514

  Dunning, Sally ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Anticipatory grief; Children; Dying parent; Terminal illness

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750088120     PISSN: 00911674     EISSN: 15733343     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10615-006-0045-5     Document Type: Article

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