Family strengths and challenges in the USA

Marriage and Family Review

Volumn 41, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 281-307

  DeFrain, John ^a   Asay, Sylvia M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT KEARNEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affection; Appreciation; Circumplex Model; Commitment; Couple and Family Systems Model; Couple closeness; Couple communication; Couple flexibility; Crisis; Family; International Family Strengths Model; Spiritual well being; Stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548627029     PISSN: 01494929     EISSN: 15409635     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J002v41n03_04     Document Type: Article

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