Caregiving in Sociocultural Context

The Science of Compassionate Love: Theory, Research, and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 373-401

  Giesbrecht, Norman D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Altruistic caregiving; Caregiving in sociocultural context; Caregiving norms in health care organizations; Self transformative outcomes of caregiving; Sociocultural context, psychosocial characteristics, and attachment caregiving; Theoretical model of caregiving

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349483365     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444303070.ch13     Document Type: Chapter

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