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Patients' use of denial: coping with the unacceptable
1Bethel College, Mishawaka, Indiana, USA.
Nursing Standard (Royal College of Nursing (Great Britain) : 1987)
|October 20, 1998
Abstract:
Nurses working with terminally ill or bereaved clients and their families need to understand the defence mechanism of denial and how it helps people to cope with unacceptable physical and psychological threats.