Virtualizing Intimacy: Information Communication Technologies and Transnational Families in Therapy

Family Process

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 12-26

  Bacigalupe, Gonzalo ^a   Lambe, Susan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEUSTO   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Families; Immigration; Information Communication Technologies; Transnational

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; COMPUTER; FAMILY RELATION; FAMILY THERAPY; HUMAN; INTERNET; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; METHODOLOGY; MIGRATION; MOBILE PHONE;

CAREGIVERS; CELLULAR PHONE; COMMUNICATION; COMPUTERS; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FAMILY RELATIONS; FAMILY THERAPY; HUMANS; INTERNET;

EID: 79952083635     PISSN: 00147370     EISSN: 15455300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1545-5300.2010.01343.x     Document Type: Article

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