Initial Psychological Response to Parental Death

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 1981, Pages 316-323

  Horowitz, Mardi J ^a   Krupnick, Janice ^a   Kaltreider, Nancy ^a   Wilner, Nancy ^a   Leong, Anthony ^a   Marmar, Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ATTITUDE; BEREAVEMENT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DISTRESS SYNDROME; PARENT DEATH; PSYCHOTHERAPY; THERAPY;

ATTITUDE TO DEATH; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 0019432071     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.1981.01780280084010     Document Type: Article

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