Homesickness and children's adjustment to hospitalization: Toward a preliminary model

Children's Health Care

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-28

  Thurber, Christopher A ^a   Patterson, David R ^b   Mount, K Kiomi ^c  

^a Phillips Exeter Academy   (United States)

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

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CHILD; CHILD HOSPITALIZATION; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; COPING BEHAVIOR; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FEMALE; FOSTER CARE; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MALE; NOSTALGIA; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PREDICTION; SELF REPORT; SEPARATION ANXIETY; SKILL; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; TRAINING; ADJUSTMENT; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HOSPITAL PATIENT; LONELINESS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PSYCHIATRIC DEPARTMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; REHABILITATION CENTER;

EID: 34249739088     PISSN: 02739615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02739610701316753     Document Type: Article

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