Parental deployment and youth in military families: Exploring uncertainty and ambiguous loss

Family Relations

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 112-122

  Huebner, Angela J ^a   Mancini, Jay A ^b   Wilcox, Ryan M ^b   Grass, Saralyn R ^c   Grass, Gabriel A ^d  

^a Northern Virginia Graduate Center   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Episcopal Children's Services   (United States)

^d Building 200   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambiguous loss; Family theory; Military families; Youth resilience

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947693299     PISSN: 01976664     EISSN: 17413729     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3729.2007.00445.x     Document Type: Article

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