The Rupture and Repair of the Couple's Communal Body With Prostate Cancer

Families, Systems and Health

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 95-113

  Fergus, Karen D ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dyadic coping; Grounded theory; Narrative; Prostate cancer; Relationships; Resiliency

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATE TUMOR; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SPOUSE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; SPOUSES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79959890537     PISSN: 10917527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0023413     Document Type: Article

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