The Unsilencing of Military Wives: Wartime Deployment Experiences and Citizen Responsibility

Journal of Marital and Family Therapy

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 51-63

  Davis, Jennifer ^a   Ward, David B ^a   Storm, Cheryl ^a  

^a PACIFIC LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTERVIEW; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOLDIER; SPOUSE; WAR;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MILITARY PERSONNEL; SPOUSES; TRUTH DISCLOSURE; WAR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650767515     PISSN: 0194472X     EISSN: 17520606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-0606.2009.00154.x     Document Type: Article

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