A longitudinal study comparing bereavement phenomena in recently bereaved spouses, adult children and parents

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 235-241

  Middleton, Warwick ^a,b   Raphael, Beverley ^c   Burnett, Paul ^e   Martinek, Nada ^d  

^a Clinical Department

^b NSW Health Department ^*  (Australia)

^c New South Wales Government   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^e QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bereavement; Grief; Phenomenology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEREAVEMENT; FEMALE; GRIEF; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SPOUSE; TIME; WIDOW;

EID: 0031920228     PISSN: 00048674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00048679809062734     Document Type: Article

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