Psychological Effects on Surviving Family Members of Seeing the Deceased Person After Forensic Autopsy

Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 146-152

  Ogata, Kohske ^a   Nishi, Yuko ^a   Maeda, Hitoshi ^a  

^a OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

bereavement; forensic autopsy; multigroup analysis; posttraumatic stress disorder; relative

Indexed keywords

EID: 68049108493     PISSN: 19429681     EISSN: 1942969X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0016013     Document Type: Article

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