Families and serious mental illness: Working with loss and ambivalence

British Journal of Social Work

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 961-979

  Jones, David W ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bereavement; Carers; Psychiatry; Schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

EID: 8744271365     PISSN: 00453102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bjsw/bch123     Document Type: Article

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