Sense-making, grief, and the experience of violent loss: Toward a mediational model

Death Studies

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 403-428

  Currier, Joseph M ^a,b   Holland, Jason M ^a   Neimeyer, Robert A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^b University of Memphis   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTAL DEATH; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEREAVEMENT; CAUSE OF DEATH; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONAL STRESS; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FAMILY; FEMALE; GRIEF; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MODEL; PRESCHOOL CHILD; QUESTIONNAIRE; SUICIDE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; GRIEF; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; QUESTIONNAIRES; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE;

EID: 33645764457     PISSN: 07481187     EISSN: 10917683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07481180600614351     Document Type: Article

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