'When your child dies you don't belong in that world any more'- Experiences of mothers whose child with an intellectual disability has died

Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 546-560

  Reilly, Deirdre E ^a   Huws, Jaci C ^a   Hastings, Richard P ^a   Vaughan, Frances L ^a,b  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b BETSI CADWALADR UNIVERSITY HEALTH BOARD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bereavement; Intellectual disability; Interpretative phenomenological analysis; Mothers; Parent; Qualitative methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 54049155105     PISSN: 13602322     EISSN: 14683148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-3148.2008.00427.x     Document Type: Article

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