How couples cope with the death of a twin or higher order multiple

Twin Research and Human Genetics

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 392-402

  Swanson, Patricia B ^a   Kane, Robert T ^a   Pearsall Jones, Jillian G ^a,b   Swanson, Carl F ^a   Croft, Maxine L ^c,d  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Center for Cerebral Palsy   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Beck Depression Inventory; Bereaved fathers; Bereaved mothers; Child death; Depression; Multiple birth; Parental grief; Perinatal Grief Scale; Spirituality; Twins

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; BEREAVEMENT; BEREAVEMENT COUNSELING; CHILD DEATH; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DIVORCE; EMOTION; FAMILY; FATHER; GRIEF; HUMAN; MEDICAL STAFF; MORBIDITY; MOTHER; MOURNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPIRITUAL CARE; TWINS; UNSTRUCTURED INTERVIEW; ZYGOSITY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; AUSTRALIA; BEREAVEMENT; DEATH; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FATHERS; FEMALE; GRIEF; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHERS; TWINS;

EID: 69249205531     PISSN: 18324274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/twin.12.4.392     Document Type: Article

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