Community as a key to healing after the death of a child

Communication and Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 153-163

  Hastings, Sally O ^a   Musambira, George W ^a   Hoover, Judith D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bereavement; Bulletin board; Community; Connection; Loss; Narrative; Online

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEREAVEMENT; CHILD DEATH; COMMUNITY; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INTERNET; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; PEER GROUP; WELLBEING;

EID: 36849051348     PISSN: 16121783     EISSN: 16133625     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CAM.2007.019     Document Type: Article

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