Appreciating life: Being the father of a child with severe cerebral palsy

Journal of Neuroscience Nursing

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 36-42

  Appelbaum, Michelle Gellman ^a   Smolowitz, Janice L ^b  

^a St Francis Hospital   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; FATHER; FATHER CHILD RELATION; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FATHER-CHILD RELATIONS; FATHERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84856348392     PISSN: 08880395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JNN.0b013e31823ae4de     Document Type: Review

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