Improving the Well-Being of Couples Facing Cancer: A Review of Couples-Based Psychosocial Interventions

Journal of Marital and Family Therapy

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 250-266

  Baik, Ok Mi ^a   Adams, Kathryn Betts ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MARITAL THERAPY; NEOPLASM; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; SATISFACTION; SPOUSE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; COUPLES THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; SPOUSES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79953289946     PISSN: 0194472X     EISSN: 17520606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-0606.2010.00217.x     Document Type: Review

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