Adolescent boys with sickle cell disease: A qualitative study

Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 17-31

  Erskine, Ruth ^a  

^a ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

adaptation; adolescence; sickle cell disease

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; HUMAN; MALE; NEGRO; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT;

EID: 84856822438     PISSN: 13591045     EISSN: 14617021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1359104511399843     Document Type: Article

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