Natural Disasters: An Assessment of Family Resiliency Following Hurricane Katrina

Journal of Marital and Family Therapy

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 340-351

  Hackbarth, Maria ^a   Pavkov, Thomas ^b   Wetchler, Joseph ^b   Flannery, Michael ^b  

^a ARC Community Services Inc   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY CALUMET   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; DISASTER; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HURRICANE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SURVIVOR; UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CYCLONIC STORMS; DISASTERS; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MISSISSIPPI; NEW ORLEANS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SURVIVORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859944705     PISSN: 0194472X     EISSN: 17520606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-0606.2011.00227.x     Document Type: Article

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