Uprooted and displaced: A critical narrative study of homeless, aboriginal, and newcomer girls in Canada

Issues in Mental Health Nursing

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 418-430

  Berman, Helene ^a   Mulcahy, Gloria Alvernaz ^b   Forchuk, Cheryl ^a   Edmunds, Kathryn Ann ^a   Haldenby, Amy ^a   Lopez, Raquel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CANADA; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HOMELESSNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MENTAL HEALTH; MIGRATION; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; POVERTY; PSYCHIATRIC NURSING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; REFUGEE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL SUPPORT; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HOMELESS YOUTH; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MENTAL HEALTH; NARRATION; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; ONTARIO; POVERTY; PSYCHIATRIC NURSING; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFUGEES; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 68249131270     PISSN: 01612840     EISSN: 10964673     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01612840802624475     Document Type: Article

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