Portraits of Music Therapy in Facilitating Relationship Completion at the End of Life

Music & Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 31-39

  Clements Cortes, Amy ^a   Magill, Lucanne ^b   O’callaghan, Clare ^b  

^a University of Windsor ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

loss; love; palliative care; relationship completion; relationships

Indexed keywords

EID: 84990345072     PISSN: 19438621     EISSN: 1943863X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1943862110388181     Document Type: Article

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