Family adjustment measure: Scale construction and validation

Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 91-101

  Daire, Andrew P ^a   Dominguez, Vanessa N ^a   Carlson, Ryan G ^b   Case Pease, Jenene ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

children; coping; family; parental distress; special needs

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896281275     PISSN: 07481756     EISSN: 19476302     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0748175614522270     Document Type: Article

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