Beyond the concept of recovery: Growth and the experience of loss

Death Studies

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 27-39

  Tedeschi, Richard G ^a   Calhoun, Lawrence G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEREAVEMENT; EXISTENTIALISM; HUMAN; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; NOMENCLATURE; RELIGION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; BEREAVEMENT; EXISTENTIALISM; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; SPIRITUALITY; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 37849003519     PISSN: 07481187     EISSN: 10917683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07481180701741251     Document Type: Article

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