Grief, complicated grief, and trauma: The role of the search for meaning, impaired self-reference, and death anxiety

Illness Crisis and Loss

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 293-313

  Tolstikova, Katerina ^a,c   Fleming, Stephen ^b   Chartier, Brian ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Canadian Psychological Association   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Complicated grief; Search for meaning; Trauma

Indexed keywords

EID: 31144468662     PISSN: 10541373     EISSN: 15526968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/105413730501300402     Document Type: Article

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