Transition-Age Children With Mental Illness: Hearing the Voices of Mothers

Social Work in Health Care

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 233-249

  Gerten, Annette ^a   Hensley, Melissa ^a  

^a AUGSBURG COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

health care; maternal; mental health; social support; social work

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CAREGIVER; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHER; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TRANSITION TO ADULT CARE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CAREGIVERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; MOTHERS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TRANSITION TO ADULT CARE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84897892421     PISSN: 00981389     EISSN: 1541034X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00981389.2013.873514     Document Type: Article

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