Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: Impact on Identity and Ambiguous Loss in the Family

Families, Systems and Health

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 69-85

  Landau, Judith ^a   Hissett, Jennifer ^a  

^a Linking Human Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

ambiguous loss; boundary ambiguity; head injury; loss of self; mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI); MTBI and relational breakdown

Indexed keywords

EID: 47049091115     PISSN: 10917527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1091-7527.26.1.69     Document Type: Article

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