Dimensions of Depression: A Qualitative Study of Wellbeing Among Black African Immigrant Women

Qualitative Social Work

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 45-66

  Sellers, Sherrill L ^a   Ward, Earlise C ^a   Pate, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Africans; depression; immigrants; women

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248610330     PISSN: 14733250     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1473325006061538     Document Type: Article

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