Patterns of grief reaction after pregnancy loss

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 262-271

  Lin, Susan Xiaoqin ^a   Lasker, Judith N ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEREAVEMENT; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; FEMALE; FETUS DEATH; GRIEF; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MODEL; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; GRIEF; HUMANS; MALE; MARRIAGE; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0029923879     PISSN: 00029432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/h0080177     Document Type: Article

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