Adaptation to bereavement

Death Studies

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 877-903

  Dutton, Yulia Chentsova ^a   Zisook, Sidney ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; BEREAVEMENT; COGNITION; DEATH; EMOTIONALITY; FAMILY COPING; GRIEF; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; REVIEW; SELF ESTEEM; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SPOUSE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; BEREAVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SPOUSES; UNITED STATES; WIDOWHOOD;

EID: 28944435460     PISSN: 07481187     EISSN: 10917683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07481180500298826     Document Type: Review

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