Music Therapy with Bereaved Teenagers: A Mixed Methods Perspective

Death Studies

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 541-565

  McFerran, Katrina ^a   Roberts, Melina ^a   O'Grady, Lucy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEREAVEMENT; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; MUSIC THERAPY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF CONCEPT; SELF HELP; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; BEREAVEMENT; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MUSIC THERAPY; SELF CONCEPT; SELF-HELP GROUPS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77952924874     PISSN: 07481187     EISSN: 10917683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07481181003765428     Document Type: Article

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