Football as a metaphor: Learning to cope with life, manage emotional illness and maintain health through to recovery: Commentary

Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 488-492

  Jones, A ^a  

^a North East Wales NHS Trust ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; EXISTENTIALISM; FOOTBALL; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; NOTE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; EMOTIONS; EXISTENTIALISM; FOOTBALL; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SOCIAL ALIENATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 65549101697     PISSN: 13510126     EISSN: 13652850     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2850.2009.01403.x     Document Type: Note

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