Strengths, Struggles, and Strategies: How Adults with Serious Mental Illness Navigate Long-Term Romantic Relationships.
Married individuals and those in committed romantic relationships generally report having better mental health outcomes than their single or divorced counterparts. However, studies of romantic relationships for adults with mental illness have often ignored rewarding aspects of romantic relationships...
| Publicado en: | Community Mental Health Journal Vol. 60; no. 7; pp. 1322 - 1333 |
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Springer Nature
Oct2024
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