Post-traumatic growth in people living with a serious medical condition and its relations to physical and mental health: A systematic review

Disability and Rehabilitation

Volumn 31, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 1709-1733

  Barskova, Tatjana ^a   Oesterreich, Rainer ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

coping; health behaviour; physical health; Post traumatic growth; rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHRONIC DISEASE; COPING BEHAVIOR; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; LIFE EVENT; MENTAL HEALTH; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SURVIVOR;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHRONIC DISEASE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MENTAL HEALTH; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVIVORS;

EID: 75349094718     PISSN: 09638288     EISSN: 14645165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09638280902738441     Document Type: Review

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