There's no place like home: Preparing children for geographical and relational attachment disruptions following parental death to cancer

Clinical Social Work Journal

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 132-143

  Werner Lin, Allison ^a   Biank, Nancee M ^b   Rubenstein, Betsy ^c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Private Practice   (United States)

^c Wellness House   (United States)

Author keywords

Attachment; Children; Divorce; Grief; Human development; Place attachment

Indexed keywords

EID: 76649135804     PISSN: 00911674     EISSN: 15733343     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10615-009-0233-1     Document Type: Article

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