Content and processes of postpartum counseling after a distressing birth experience: A review

Birth

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 213-218

  Gamble, Jenny ^a   Creedy, Debra ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY DISORDER; BEHAVIOR; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; CAREGIVER; CHILDBIRTH; COUNSELING; EMOTION; HUMAN; INJURY; LABOR; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MATERNAL CARE; PARENT COUNSELING; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DESIGN; PSYCHOTHERAPY; PUBLICATION; PUERPERIUM; REVIEW; STRESS; SYMPTOM;

COUNSELING; CRISIS INTERVENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; OBSTETRIC LABOR COMPLICATIONS; POSTNATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 4444337191     PISSN: 07307659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0730-7659.2004.00307.x     Document Type: Review

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