"In Search of a Tale They can Live With": About Loss, Family Secrets, and Selective Disclosure

Journal of Marital and Family Therapy

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 529-541

  Rober, Peter ^a   Walravens, Geertje ^b   Versteynen, Leen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b The Training Institute IPRR   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; CONFIDENTIALITY; FAMILY RELATION; FEMALE; GRIEF; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; SELF CONCEPT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CONFIDENTIALITY; FAMILY RELATIONS; FEMALE; GRIEF; HUMANS; INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MOTION PICTURES AS TOPIC; SELF CONCEPT; TRUTH DISCLOSURE;

EID: 84864014963     PISSN: 0194472X     EISSN: 17520606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-0606.2011.00237.x     Document Type: Article

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