Fabricated Illness: Working within the Family System to Find a Pathway to Health

Family Process

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 570-587

  Kozlowska, Kasia ^a,b   Foley, Sue ^a   Savage, Blanche ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AT WESTMEAD   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attachment; Dynamic Maturational Model; Fabricated Illness; Induced Illness by Proxy; Medically Unexplained Symptoms

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; FAMILY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; METHODOLOGY; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PEDIGREE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VAGINA DISCHARGE;

CHILD; FAMILY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PEDIGREE; PROFESSIONAL-FAMILY RELATIONS; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VAGINAL DISCHARGE;

EID: 84870953177     PISSN: 00147370     EISSN: 15455300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/famp.12000     Document Type: Article

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