Effects of stress on family caregivers: Recognition and management

Psychiatric Times

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2006, Pages

  Vitaliano, Peter P ^a   Katon, Wayne J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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