Working with parents with a serious mental illness: What do service providers think?

Australian Social Work

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 21-26

  Byrne, Linda ^a   Hearle, Jenny ^b   Plant, Karen ^a   Barkla, Jo ^a   Jenner, Linda ^a   McGrath, John ^a  

^a WOLSTON PARK HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b Disability Services Queensland   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Parents; Psychosis; Schizophrenia; Service providers

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937329881     PISSN: 0312407X     EISSN: 14470748     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03124070008415217     Document Type: Article

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