Parents' Experience and Meaning Construction of the Loss of a Child in a National Terror Attack

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 93-102

  Possick, Chaya ^a   Sadeh, Ruth Ann ^b   Shamai, Michal ^b  

^a ARIEL UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

collective bereavement; national terror; national trauma

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BATTLE INJURY; BEREAVEMENT; CHILD DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FAMILY INTERACTION; FEMALE; GRIEF; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PARENTAL ATTITUDE; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SCHOOL CHILD; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; TERRORISM;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE; BEREAVEMENT; CHILD; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MALE; PARENTS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TERRORISM;

EID: 43149084121     PISSN: 00029432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0002-9432.78.1.93     Document Type: Article

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