The personal experience of coping with brain disease: A multimethod validation and assessment

Journal of Mental Health and Aging

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 7-29

  Stocker, Kathryn Brandt ^a   Turner, Barbara Formaniak ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN TUMOR; CAREGIVER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CODING; COPING BEHAVIOR; COPING STRATEGY QUESTIONNAIRE; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STANDARDIZED MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; SUPPORT GROUP; TECHNIQUE; THEORETICAL MODEL; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 4444284469     PISSN: 10784470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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