Life stories of families with a terminally ill child
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Life stories of families with a terminally ill child.
Family units with a terminally ill child have a tendency to withdraw and this isolation may lead to problems in their mental health. A tendency with psychologists, clergy and helpers from other professions is to act as ideal experts on the lives of saddened people. From painful personal experience, this does not seem to enable acquiescence. Therefore, the aim of research on families with termin...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Curationis
سال: 2001
ISSN: 2223-6279,0379-8577
DOI: 10.4102/curationis.v24i2.830