Clinical challenges following an adolescent's death by suicide: Bereavement issues faced by family, friends, schools, and clinicians

Clinical Social Work Journal

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 81-102

  Parrish, Margarete ^a   Tunkle, Judy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b Pastoral Counseling Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescent death by suicide; Bereavement; Postvention; Social workers; Survivors

Indexed keywords

EID: 17144417203     PISSN: 00911674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10615-005-2621-5     Document Type: Article

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