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Preparation of this paper was greatly facilitated by the award of a postdoctoral fellowship by the Psychology Department at Stanford University and by a grant from the University of Michigan's Committee on the International Year of the Child. Thanks are due to Professors Philip Zimbardo and Ewart Thomas.
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Barbarin, O.A., Chesler, M. The medical context of parental coping with childhood cancer. Am J Commun Psychol 14, 221–235 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00911822
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