Grieving Together and apart: Bereaved parents contradictions of marital interaction

Journal of Applied Communication Research

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 257-277

  Toller, Paige W ^a   Braithwaite, Dawn O ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Grieving; Marital Partners; Parental Bereavement; Relational Dialectics Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349856174     PISSN: 00909882     EISSN: 14795752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00909880903025887     Document Type: Article

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