The dual process model of coping with bereavement: Rationale and description

Death Studies

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 197-224

  Stroebe, Margaret ^a   Schut, Henk ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; BEREAVEMENT; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEATH; HUMAN; MENTAL STRESS; PSYCHODYNAMICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; REVIEW;

EID: 0032943608     PISSN: 07481187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/074811899201046     Document Type: Review

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