Caring for dying children and their families: MFTs working at the gates of the Elysian fields

Contemporary Family Therapy

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 75-91

  Ungureanu, Ileana ^a   Sandberg, Jonathan G ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dying children; Impact on personal and professional life; Marriage and family therapists

Indexed keywords

EID: 43349086828     PISSN: 08922764     EISSN: 15733335     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10591-008-9059-1     Document Type: Article

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