Back home: A qualitative study exploring re-entering cross-cultural missionary aid workers' loss and grief

Omega: Journal of Death and Dying

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 19-38

  Selby, Susan ^a   Moulding, Nicole ^b   Clark, Sheila ^a   Jones, Alison ^c   Braunack Mayer, Annette ^a   Beilby, Justin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c ROYAL AUSTRALASIAN COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLERGY; COUNSELING; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GRIEF; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LITERATURE; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL ADAPTATION;

ACCULTURATION; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ANECDOTES AS TOPIC; AUSTRALIA; COUNSELING; FEMALE; GRIEF; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MISSIONS AND MISSIONARIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 70349304387     PISSN: 00302228     EISSN: 15413764     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2190/OM.59.1.b     Document Type: Article

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